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1 - 32 of 32 Interesting & Fun 26th of December Facts: |
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| 1481 - Battle of Westbroek - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. |
| 1620 - Pilgrim Fathers land at what becomes New Plymouth in Massachusetts. |
| 1776 - American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton. |
| 1790 - Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution. |
| 1792 - The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris. |
| 1793 - Battle of Geisberg: French defeat Austrians. |
| 1793 - The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place. |
| 1825 - Several Imperial Russia army officers lead circa 3000 soldiers on the Senate Square in the failed Decembrist uprising. |
| 1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins. |
| 1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium. |
| 1908 - Jack Johnson becomes the first African American heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia. |
| 1931 - Phi Iota Alpha, the oldest existing Latino fraternity is founded. |
| 1933 - The Nissan Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 1943 - World War II: The German warship Scharnhorst sinks off the coast of North Cape in Norway after being attacked by the British Royal Navy late the previous evening. |
| 1944 - The play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is first publicly performed. |
| 1944 - World War II: U.S. troops repulse German forces at Bastogne. |
| 1947 - Twenty-six inches of snow falls in 16 hours in New York City. |
| 1948 - Cardinal 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. |
| 1973 - Soyuz 13 lands on earth after a week in orbit. |
| 1976 - The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded. |
| 1979 - Soviet Special forces troops take over presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. |
| 1979 - Opening night of the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea at the Hammersmith Odeon; a benefit concert for the citizens of Cambodia who were victims of dictator Pol Pot. |
| 1982 - TIME magazine's Man of the Year was for the first time given to a non-human, the personal computer. |
| 1984 - Princess Astrid of Belgium marries Archduke Lorenz of Austria-Este. |
| 1986 - The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after thirty-five years on the air. |
| 1988 - The Nanjing Anti-African protests in Nanjing, China begin. |
| 1991 - Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR. |
| 1998 - Iraq announced its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones. |
| 1998 - Severe gales over Ireland, northern England, and southern Scotland cause widespread disruption and widespread power outages in Northern Ireland and southern Scotland. |
| 1999 - Severe weather in France kills over 100 people and causes extensive damage to property and trees and the French national power grid (see Lothar). |
| 2002 - French Raelian scientist Brigitte Boisselier says Clonaid has delivered the first of a supposed five clone babies through cesarean section. |
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