December 26

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December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in leap years. There are 5 days remaining.

Events

1620 - Elizabeth Bathory's crimes are uncovered
1776 - American Revolutionary War: The British were defeated in the Battle of Trenton
1825 - The Erie Canal opens
1860 - Confederate diplomatic envoys James Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and Great Britain
1908 - Jack Johnson becomes the first African American heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia
1933 - The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo, Japan
1933 - FM radio is patented
1944 - The play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams was first publicly performed).
1944 - American troops repulse German forces at Bastogne
1966 - The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach
1982 - TIME magazine's Man of the Year was for the first time given to a non-human; a computer.
1991 - Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR.
1996 - JonBenet Ramsey, a six-year-old beauty queen, was found murdered in her family's basement in Boulder, Colorado.
1998 - Iraq announced its intention to fire upon US and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern "no-fly zones".

Boxing Day in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia
St. Stephen's Day, a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland
First day of Kwanzaa
Feast day of Saint Stephen (in the western Christian church), holiday in Croatia.

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