WillDekkard
12-26-2012, 05:26 PM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - December 26th
Boxing Day
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1135 Coronation of King Stephen of England.
1481 Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats troops of Utrecht.
1776 American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian mercenaries.
1790 Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
1793 Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeat Austria.
1793 The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
1799 Four thousand people attend George Washington's funeral where Henry Lee III declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
1805 Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
1806 Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.
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.
1825 Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Czar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist revolt in Saint Petersburg.
1846 Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism.
1860 The first ever inter-club association football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom.
1861 American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James M. Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and United Kingdom.
1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.
1862 Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
1862 The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans die.
1870 The 12.8-km long Frιjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
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.
1883 The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
1898 Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1900 A relief crew arrives at the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles of Scotland, UK, only to find the previous crew has disappeared without a trace.
1919 Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
1925 Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1941 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
1943 World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
1944 World War II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
1948 Cardinal Jσzsef Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
1966 The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
1972 Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.
1976 The Communist Party of Nepal (MarxistLeninist) is founded.
1982 Time's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.
1991 The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
1994 Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.
1996 Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenιt Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.
1996 Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
1997 The Soufriθre Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.
1998 Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
1999 The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
2003 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-ι Bam.
2004 A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000 people including over 1700 on a moving train.
2004 Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
2006 An oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria explodes, killing at least 260.
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This Date in History - December 26th
Boxing Day
c/p from Wikipedia
1135 Coronation of King Stephen of England.
1481 Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats troops of Utrecht.
1776 American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian mercenaries.
1790 Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
1793 Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeat Austria.
1793 The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
1799 Four thousand people attend George Washington's funeral where Henry Lee III declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
1805 Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
1806 Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.
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.
1825 Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Czar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist revolt in Saint Petersburg.
1846 Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism.
1860 The first ever inter-club association football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom.
1861 American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James M. Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and United Kingdom.
1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.
1862 Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
1862 The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans die.
1870 The 12.8-km long Frιjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
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.
1883 The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
1898 Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1900 A relief crew arrives at the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles of Scotland, UK, only to find the previous crew has disappeared without a trace.
1919 Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
1925 Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1941 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
1943 World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
1944 World War II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
1948 Cardinal Jσzsef Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
1966 The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
1972 Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.
1976 The Communist Party of Nepal (MarxistLeninist) is founded.
1982 Time's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.
1991 The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
1994 Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.
1996 Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenιt Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.
1996 Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
1997 The Soufriθre Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.
1998 Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
1999 The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
2003 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-ι Bam.
2004 A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000 people including over 1700 on a moving train.
2004 Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
2006 An oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria explodes, killing at least 260.
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