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26 Dec 1198
French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest
26 Dec 1568
Uprising of Moriscos against suppression in Granada
26 Dec 1748
France & Austria sign treaty about Southern Netherlands
26 Dec 1799
George Washington is eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as 1st in war 1st in peace & 1st in hearts of his countrymen
26 Dec 1805
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established Philadelphia
26 Dec 1811
A theater fire in Richmond Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.
26 Dec 1813
Zamose Modlin Torgau surrenders to allied armies
26 Dec 1825
Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins [O.S. 14 December]
26 Dec 1830
Gaetano Donizettis opera Anna Bolena premieres in Milan
26 Dec 1831
Vincenzo Bellinis opera Norma premieres in Milan
26 Dec 1848
1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to San Francisco
26 Dec 1848
William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia
26 Dec 1848
The Phi Delta Theta fraternity is founded at Miami University Oxford Ohio.
26 Dec 1860
Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
26 Dec 1860
Major Robert Anderson under cover of darkness concentrates his small force at Ft Sumter
26 Dec 1860
First ever inter-club football match between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield England
26 Dec 1862
38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minnesota due to their uprising
26 Dec 1865
James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st US coffee percolator
26 Dec 1870
The 12.8-km long Frjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
26 Dec 1871
Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time on their lost opera Thespis. It does modestly well but the two would not collaborate again for four years.
26 Dec 1877
Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention
26 Dec 1878
1st US store to install electric lights Philadelphia
26 Dec 1883
The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
26 Dec 1890
King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company
26 Dec 1892
Opera Cristoforo Colombo is produced (La Scala)
26 Dec 1899
Mafeking Bathe-Powells failed assault up fort Game Tree 24 killed
26 Dec 1902
Most knock downs in a fight Oscar Nelson (5) & Christy Williams (42)
26 Dec 1914
US Government protests British interference with American merchant ships at sea on the same day Germans announce they will treat food as contraband subject to seizure weakens Americas protest
26 Dec 1917
1st NHL defensemen to score a goal Toronto Maple Leaf Harry Cameron
26 Dec 1917
US Federal government took over operation of American railroads for duration of WW I
26 Dec 1918
1st day of 1st-class cricket in Aust after WW I (Vic v NSW)
26 Dec 1918
After spending Christmas with American troops in France Wilson goes to London for preliminary discussions about the forthcoming peace conference
26 Dec 1925
1st East West football game at Ewing Park before 25000 fans
26 Dec 1925
NHL record 141 shots as NY Americans (73) beat Pitt Pirates (68) 3-1 NYs Jake Forbes 67 saves Pitts Ray Waters 70
26 Dec 1925
New York Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates set an NHL record by recording a combined 141 shots on goal in Americans 3-1 win Roy Worters makes incredible 70 saves for Pittsburgh and Jake Forbes has 67 for NY
26 Dec 1928
Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming
26 Dec 1928
World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax Hooker) NSW v Vic
26 Dec 1931
Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play Of Thee I Sing by George and Ira Gershwin premieres on Broadway New York City
26 Dec 1933
US forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere
26 Dec 1933
FM radio patent granted to American engineer Edwin Howard Armstrong
26 Dec 1934
Yomiuri Giants Japans 1st professional baseball team forms
26 Dec 1938
Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England v South Africa
26 Dec 1940
1st-class cricket debut of Arthur Morris who scores 148
26 Dec 1940
JA FieldsJ Chodorovs My Sister Eileen premieres in NYC
26 Dec 1943
British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst
26 Dec 1943
Chicago Bears win NFL championship defeating Washington Redskins 41-21 in Chicago
26 Dec 1946
Beggars Holiday opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 111 performances
26 Dec 1946
Toplitzky of Notre Dame opens at Century Theater NYC for 60 performances
26 Dec 1946
35th Davis Cup USA beats Australia in Melbourne (5-0)
26 Dec 1946
Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era)
26 Dec 1947
Cradle Will Ruck opens at Mansfield Theater NYC for 34 performances
26 Dec 1947
British transfer Heard & McDonald Islands (Indian Ocean) to Australia
26 Dec 1947
Heavy snow blankets Northeast buries NYC under 25.8 of snow in 16 hrs That same day LA set a record high of 84F
26 Dec 1948
Hungarian cardinal Jzsef Mindszenty arrested
26 Dec 1950
Gillette & Mutual buy All Star & World Series rights (6M for 6 yrs)
26 Dec 1954
Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship beating Detroit 56-10
26 Dec 1955
Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship beating Los Angeles Rams 38-14
26 Dec 1955
RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV
26 Dec 1957
Roger Sessions 3rd Symphony premieres in London
26 Dec 1960
Musical Do re mi with Phil Silvers premieres St James Theater in NYC
26 Dec 1960
Philadelphia Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game
26 Dec 1963
Double Dublin opens at Little Theater NYC for 4 performances
26 Dec 1963
The Beatles release I Want To Hold Your Hand and I Saw Her Standing There in the US
26 Dec 1964
Beatles I Feel Fine single goes 1 & stays 1 for 3 weeks
26 Dec 1964
Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game
26 Dec 1964
Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley claim last victim
26 Dec 1965
Funny Girl based on the life of Fanny Brice with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway
26 Dec 1965
Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game
26 Dec 1966
Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday
26 Dec 1967
Ballon dOr Ferencvros forward Flrin Albert wins award for best European football player ahead of Manchester United midfielder Bobby Charlton and Celtic winger Jimmy Johnstone
26 Dec 1968
Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane kills 1
26 Dec 1968
Led Zeppelins concert debut in Denver as opener for Vanilla Fudge
26 Dec 1968
Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors 2 majors & 2 game misconducts in a game against NY Rangers in NYs Madison Square Garden
26 Dec 1972
Ballon dOr Bayern Munich defender Franz Beckenbauer wins award for best European football player ahead of tied fellow German duo of Gerd Mller and Gnter Netzer
26 Dec 1973
2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours
26 Dec 1975
1st supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144)
26 Dec 1975
Crowd of 85661 attend the 1st day of the Australia vs West Indies MCG cricket test
26 Dec 1976
Music Is closes at St James Theater NYC after 8 performances
26 Dec 1976
The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
26 Dec 1976
NFC Championship Game Minnesota Vikings beat Los Angeles Rams 24-13
26 Dec 1979
Soviet Special forces take over presidential palace in Kabul Afghanistan.
26 Dec 1980
Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service.
26 Dec 1981
One of the great days Test Cricket at the MCG Australia v West Indies
26 Dec 1983
Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews v Pakistan at the MCG
26 Dec 1985
Test Cricket debut of Steve Waugh v India at the MCG
26 Dec 1986
Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia about 60 killed
26 Dec 1986
Doug Jarvis 31 sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games
26 Dec 1986
TV soap Search for Tomorrow ends 35 year run
26 Dec 1987
Les Miserables opens at National Theatre of Iceland Reykjavik
26 Dec 1988
Legs Diamond opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 64 performances
26 Dec 1988
Anti African student rebellion in Nanjing China
26 Dec 1989
Ballon dOr Milans second straight 1-2-3 Dutch striker Marco van Basten wins his 2nd best football player in Europe title ahead of Franco Baresi and Frank Rijkaard
26 Dec 1990
Reggie Williams becomes 1st GM of WLAFs NY-NJ Knights
26 Dec 1990
Senior Professional Baseball Association folds
26 Dec 1991
Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years
26 Dec 1991
NY Islander Derek King ties NJ Devils 5-5 with second left
26 Dec 1991
Future Hockey Hall of Fame right wing Joe Mullen scores 4 goals for the second straight NHL game as the Pittsburgh Penguins rout Toronto 12-1 Mario Lemieux adds 2 goals & 5 assists and Kevin Stevens has 2 goals & 4 assists
26 Dec 1992
The NHLs San Jose Sharks end a 13-game losing streak with a 7-2 win over the LA Kings albeit allowing 59 shots the most in team history Jeff Hacket makes 57 saves
26 Dec 1993
Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri Armenia 36 killed
26 Dec 1993
Floyd Nicklaus & Rodriguez wins Wendys 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tournament
26 Dec 1994
French commandos terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille
26 Dec 1995
Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL v Aust MCG)
26 Dec 1995
Paul Adams becomes South Africas youngest Test Cricket player at 18 yrs 340 days
26 Dec 1996
Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
26 Dec 1996
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification goes into force
26 Dec 1996
Six-year-old beauty queen JonBent Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her familys home in Boulder Colorado
26 Dec 1997
The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes creating a small tsunami offshore.
26 Dec 1998
Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones
26 Dec 1998
Severe gales over Ireland northern England and southern Scotland cause widespread disruption and widespread power outages in Northern Ireland and southern Scotland
26 Dec 1999
Severe weather in France kills over 100 people and causes extensive damage to property trees and the French national power grid (see Lothar).
26 Dec 2001
Crude oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) record one of their largest 1-day jumps of the year as traders become convinced that OPEC will follow through on production cuts
26 Dec 2003
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg- Bam.
26 Dec 2004
9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka India Indonesia Thailand Malaysia the Maldives and edges of the Indian Ocean killing 230000 people
26 Dec 2005
Boxing Day shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto.
26 Dec 2006
The Hengchun earthquake with 7.1 magnitude hit Taiwan.
26 Dec 2006
At 40 years 268 days Teddy Sheringham scores for West Ham United in a 2-1 loss to Portsmouth at Upton Park London becomes oldest goalscorer in EPL history
26 Dec 2012
China opens the worlds longest high speed rail route from Beijing to Guangzhou
26 Dec 2015
Floods in Paraguay Argentina Brazil and Uruguay displace 150000 blamed on El Nino
26 Dec 1705
Fateh Singh (6) and Zorawar Singh (7) sons of Guru Gobind Singh are murdered by Wazir Khan for refusing to convert to Islam they are now among the most hallowed martyrs in Sikhism
26 Dec 1943
National Football League Championship Wrigley Field Chicago Chicago Bears beat Washington Redskins 41-21 Bears 6th title
26 Dec 1954
National Football League Championship Cleveland Municipal Stadium Cleveland Browns thrash Detroit Lions 56-10 Browns placekicker Lou Groza makes 8 extra points a new title game record
26 Dec 1955
National Football League Championship LA Memorial Coliseum Cleveland Browns beat Los Angeles Rams 38-14 Browns defend title and win their 3rd NFL Championship of the 1950s in a second straight rout
26 Dec 1964
AFL Championship War Memorial Stadium Buffalo Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 defending champions cant overcome 1st quarter injury to star RB Keith Lincoln
26 Dec 1965
AFL Championship Balboa Stadium San Diego Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 repeat previous years win over SD
26 Dec 1976
NFC Championship Metropolitan Stadium Bloomington Minnesota Vikings beat Los Angeles Rams 24-13
26 Dec 2018
American Colin OBrady is the first person to cross Antarctica solo and unassisted after 54 days at the Ross Ice Shelf
26 Dec 1925
NY Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates set an NHL record by recording a combined 141 shots on goal in Americans 3-1 win Roy Worters makes incredible 70 saves for Pittsburgh and Jake Forbes has 67 for NY
26 Dec 1992
New York Jets announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75
26 Dec 2019
Annular solar eclipse visible from South and South East Asia
26 Dec 1862
Largest mass execution in US history 38 Dakota men were executed via hanging in the aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War in Mankato Minnesota.
26 Dec 1925
1st East-West Shrine Bowl game of college football all-stars played before 25000 fans at Ewing Park San Francisco. Proceeds continue to benefit Shriners Hospitals for Children.
26 Dec 1967
BBC broadcasts The Beatles psychedelic travelogue Magical Mystery Tour
26 Dec 1986
Hartford center Doug Jarvis sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games as the Whalers tie 1-1 after OT against his old club Montreal Canadiens
26 Dec 2005
Boxing Day shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto kills 1 and wounds 6 others
26 Dec 1854
Treaty of Medicine Creek signed by Nisqually Puyallup and Coast Salish peoples with Isaac Ingalls Stevens Governor of Washington Territory giving up 2.5 million acres to preserve fishing and gathering rights [1]
26 Dec 1976
Richard Adler and Will Holts musical Music Is based on Shakespeares The Tempest starring Christopher Hewitt and directed by George Abbott closes at St James Theater NYC after 8 performances
26 Dec 1862
Largest mass execution in US history 38 Dakota men were executed via hanging in the aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War in Mankato Minnesota [1]
26 Dec 1862
US Civil War Battle of Dumfries begins in Virginia
26 Dec 1862
US Navy formally commissions 1st hospital ship the USS Red Rover - a captured Confederate sidewheel barracks ship converted for the purpose - for service on the Mississippi [1] [2]
26 Dec 1932
Revival of Eubie Blake and Noble Sissles musical Shuffle Along opens at Mansfield Theater NYC runs for 17 performances
26 Dec 1198
Bishop of Paris Eudes de Sully condemns the Feast of Fools - the medieval festival where higher clergy changed places with lower clergy
26 Dec 1793
Battle of Geisberg French defeat a force of Austrians and Prussians
26 Dec 1892
Alberto Franchettis opera Cristoforo Colombo opens at La Scala Teatro in Milan Italy
26 Dec 1964
Beatles single I Feel Fine goes 1 & stays 1 for 3 weeks
26 Dec 1968
Led Zeppelins US concert debut in Denver Colorado as opening act for Vanilla Fudge
26 Dec 1973
Two Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record seven hours
26 Dec 1979
Soviet special forces take over the presidential palace in Kabul Afghanistan
26 Dec 1985
Steve Waugh makes his Test cricket debut against India at the MCG
26 Dec 1986
TV soap Search for Tomorrow ends 35-year run
26 Dec 1990
Reggie Williams becomes the first general manager of the WLAFs NY-NJ Knights
26 Dec 1993
Antonov-26 crashes in Gyumri Armenia killing 36 people
26 Dec 2006
The Hengchun earthquake with 7.1 magnitude hits Taiwan
26 Dec 2023
The Detroit Pistons suffer a 118-112 loss to the Brooklyn Nets at home to set an NBA single-season record with their 27th straight defeat
26 Dec 1476
Galeazzo Maria Sforza Duke and ruler of Milan is assassinated by three court officials in Santo Stefano church on the feast day of St Stephens
26 Dec 1860
First ever inter-club football match takes place at Sandygate Road in Sheffield England between Sheffield F.C. and Hallam F.C. who win 2-0
26 Dec 1890
King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with British East Africa Company assuring their backing as he takes the throne from his brother
26 Dec 1898
Marie and Pierre Curie announce the existence of a second element which they name radium
26 Dec 1919
Yankees and Boston Red Sox reach agreement to move future Baseball Hall of Fame pitching slugger Babe Ruth to New York
26 Dec 1962
Dmitri Shostakovichs opera Katerina Ismailova premieres at the Stanislavski-Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre in Moscow USSR
26 Dec 1964
Beatles single I Feel Fine goes 1 and stays 1 for 3 weeks
26 Dec 1967
BBC television broadcasts The Beatles psychedelic travelogue Magical Mystery Tour
26 Dec 1975
George Harrison teases his hit My Sweet Lord before breaking into The Pirate Song on Eric Idles Rutland Weekend Television Christmas Special (UK)
26 Dec 1986
Mark Messier is suspended for 10 games for instigating a fight with Jamie Macoun and breaking his cheekbone
26 Dec 1989
ODI cricket debut for Australias Mark Taylor and Sri Lankas Sanath Jayasuriya at the MCG
26 Dec 1991
Future Pro Football HOF coach Chuck Noll retires as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers (1969)
26 Dec 1996
Six-year-old beauty queen JonBent Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her familys home in Boulder Colorado seven hours after being reported as missing