26 December

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The 26t o December is the 360t day o the year (361t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 5 days bidin.

Events

2004 Indian Ocean yirdquauk an tsunami hittin Thailand.

1135 - Keeng Stephen o Ingland is crowned.
1825 - The Erie Canal opens.
1925 - The Communist Pairty o Indie is foondit.
1925 - Turkey decides tae adopt the Gregorian calendar, stairtin on 1 Januar 1926.
1933 - The Nissan Motor Company is organisit.
1943 - At the Cairo Conference, Winston Churchill decides that Germany needs tae be defeatit afore Japan.
1943 - Warld War II: German battleship "Scharnhorst" is sunk in a battle wi twa Breetish ships in the Norse Sea, killin aw but 36 o the 1,968 men on baird.
1982 - The personal computer becomes the first non-human tae acame Time magazine's "Person o the Year".
1991 - The last institutions o the Soviet Union cease tae exist.
1999 - Major storms hit Fraunce an Germany, killin ower 100 fowk.
2003 - Thousands o fowk are kilt bi a strang yirdquauk in Bam, Iran.
2004 - 2004 Indian Ocean yirdquauk an tsunami: Thousands o fowk are kilt, especially in Indonesie.
2004 - Viktor Yushchenko defeats Viktor Yanukovych in the re-run o Ukraine's Preses election.
2006 - 260 fowk are kilt bi an oil pipeline explosion in Nigerie.
2012 - Shinzo Abe becomes Prime meenister o Japan for a seicont time.
2016 - Shinzo Abe becomes the first Prime meenister o Japan tae visit the site o the Pearl Harbor attack in Hawaii.
2017 - Honduras an Panama decide tae muive their embassies in Israel frae Tel Aviv tae Jerusalem, efter the semme decision wis made bi the leaders o the Unitit States an Guatemala.
2017 - Umwhile perfaisonal fitbawer George Weah is electit Preses o Liberie.

Births

1194 - Frederick II, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1250)
1791 - Charles Babbage, Inglis mathemateecian an inventor (d. 1871)
1872 - Norman Angell, Inglis jurnalist, author an politeecian (d. 1967)
1878 - Alex Raisbeck, Scots fitbawer (d. 1949)
1891 - Henry Miller, American writer (d. 1980)
1893 - Mao Zedong, Cheenese Communist leader (d. 1976)
1904 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban novelist, essayist an musicologist (d. 1980)
1914 - Richard Widmark, American actor (d. 2008)
1935 - Stevie Chalmers, Scots fitbawer (d. 2019)
1939 - Phil Spector, American music producer
1942 - Gray Davis, American politeecian, umwhile Govrenor o Californie
1947 - Liz Lochhead, umwhile Scots Makar
1949 - Jose Ramos-Horta, umwhile Preses o East Timor
1953 - Toomas Hendrik Ilves, umwhile Preses o Estonie
1963 - Lars Ulrich, Dens-American muisicker (Metallica)
1968 - Catherine Calderwood, umwhile Chief Medical Afficer o Scotland
1971 - Jared Leto, American actor an muisicker
1986 - Hugo Lloris, French fitbawer
1989 - Yohan Blake, Jamaican sprinter
1990 - Aaron Ramsey, Welsh fitbawer
1995 - Zach Mills, American actor

Daiths

268 - Pape Dionysius
1530 - Babur, Mughal Emperor (b. 1483)
1844 - Thomas Webster, Scots geologist (b. 1772)
1890 - Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman an airchaeologist (b. 1822)
1901 - Joseph Noel Paton, Scots penter (b. 1821)
1972 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1884)
1985 - Dian Fossey, American zoologist, primatologist an anthropologist (b. 1932)
2006 - Gerald Ford, 38t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1913)
2010 - Salvador Jorge Blanco, Preses o the Dominican Republic (b. 1926)
2013 - Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-American actress an sangster (b. 1912)
2014 - Leo Tindemans, Prime meenister o Belgium (b. 1922)
2018 - Roy J. Glauber, American pheesicist (b. 1925)

Halidays

Boxin Day
Saunt Stephen's Day
First Day o Kwanzaa (Unitit States)