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Events from History on December 26

xxxx : ionysius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
xxxx : eo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
xxxx : osimus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1198 : French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest
1481 : Battle at Westbroek: Dutch army beats Utrecht
1492 : 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
1568 : Uprising of Morisco's against suppression in Granada
1620 : Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA
1659 : Long Parliament reforms in Westminster
1748 : France & Austria signs treaty about Southern Netherlands
1773 : Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia
1776 : Battle of Trenton-major British defeat
1776 : George Washington defeats Hessians at Trenton
1799 : George Washington is eulogized by Col Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st
1799 : in peace & 1st in hearts of his countrymen"
1805 : France & Austria signs Peace of Pressburg
1805 : Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
1809 : English invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen
1813 : Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrenders to allied armies
1825 : Erie Canal opens
1830 : Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Anna Bolena," premieres in Milan
1831 : Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma," premieres in Milan
1848 : 1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
1848 : William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia
1854 : Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo
1860 : Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
1860 : Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his
1860 : small force at Ft Sumter
1862 : -Dec 28th) Battle of Dumfries, VA
1862 : 1st US navy hospital ship enters service
1862 : 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minn, due to their uprising
1865 : James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st US coffee percolator
1872 : 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18")
1877 : Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st natl convention
1878 : 1st US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia
1879 : John Brahms' "Tragic Ouverture," premieres
1890 : King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company
1892 : Opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala)
1899 : Mafeking: Bathe-Powells failed assault up fort Game Tree: 24 killed
1902 : Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) & Christy Williams (42)
1908 : Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
1916 : Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France
1917 : Fed govt took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I
1919 : Yanks & Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth
1924 : Judy Garland, 2«, billed as Baby Frances, show business debut
1925 : 1st East West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans
1925 : NY's Jake Forbes makes 67 saves, Pitt's Ray Waters makes 70
1925 : Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar
1926 : Prince-regent Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
1928 : Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming
1928 : World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax / Hooker) NSW v Vic
1931 : George/Ira Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing," premieres in NYC
1931 : Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Bdwy
1931 : SS-Sturmbannfhrer Reinhard Heydrich marries Lina von Osten
1932 : Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China
1933 : Bradman scores 187* NSW v Victoria, 294 mins, 13 fours
1933 : US forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere
1934 : Yomiuri Giants, Japan's 1st professional baseball team forms
1935 : Stalin views Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth"
1936 : Israel Philarmonic Orch forms
1938 : Bradman scores 225 South Aust v Qld before Christ gets him out
1939 : Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey
1939 : Mine strikes in Borinage Brussels
1940 : 1st-class debut of Arthur Morris, who scores 148
1940 : JA Fields/J Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen," premieres in NYC
1941 : Winston Churchill becomes 1st British PM to address a joint meeting
1941 : of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"
1943 : British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst
1943 : Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter
1944 : Battle of Bastogne-US Gen Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans
1944 : Budapest surrounded by soviet army
1944 : Tennessee Williams' play "Glass Menagerie," premieres in Chicago
1946 : "Beggar's Holiday" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 111 performances
1946 : "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" opens at Century Theater NYC for 60 perfs
1946 : Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era)
1947 : "Cradle Will Ruck" opens at Mansfield Theater NYC for 34 performances
1947 : 16 hrs That same day, LA set a record high of 84ø F
1947 : British transfer Heard & McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia
1947 : Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries NYC under 25.8" of snow in
1948 : Hungarian cardinal Mindszenty arrested
1950 : Gillette & Mutual buy All Star & World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)
1954 : "The Shadow," airs for last time on radio
1955 : RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV
1957 : Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in London
1960 : "Do Re Mi" opens at St James Theater NYC for 400 performances
1960 : Musical "Do re mi" with Phil Silvers premieres in NYC
1963 : "Double Dublin" opens at Little Theater NYC for 4 performances
1963 : Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There"
1963 : US furnishes cereal to USSR
1964 : Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
1964 : Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game
1964 : Moors Murderers claim last victim
1965 : "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway
1965 : Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game
1965 : Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline
1966 : Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday
1967 : BBC broadcasts "Magical Mystery Tour"
1967 : Dave Brubeck Quartet formally disbands
1968 : Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1
1968 : Jay Allens "Forty Carats," premieres in NYC
1968 : Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Boston as opener for Vanilla Fudge
1968 : game misconducts in a game against NY Rangers in NY's MSG
1973 : "Exorcist," starring Linda Blair & rated X, premieres
1973 : 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours
1973 : Soyuz 13 returns to Earth
1975 : 1st supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144)
1976 : "Music Is" closes at St James Theater NYC after 8 performances
1977 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 : India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail
1982 : TIME's Man of the Year is a computer
1982 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 : Belgian princess Astrid marries arch duke Otto L van Austrian-Este
1986 : Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed
1986 : TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run
1987 : "Les Miserables" opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik
1988 : "Legs Diamond" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 64 performances
1988 : Anti African student rebellion in China PR
1990 : Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
1990 : Reggie Williams becomes 1st GM of WLAF's NY-NJ Knights
1990 : Senior Professional Baseball Association folds
1991 : Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction
1991 : Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India
1991 : NY Islander Derek King ties NJ Devils 5-5 with « second left
1992 : NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75
1993 : Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed
1993 : Comedian Rodney Dangerfield (72) weds Joan Child (41)
1994 : Actor Jason Hervey (22) weds Kelley Patricia O'Neill (27)
1994 : French commando's terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille
1994 : Pres « brother Roger Clinton (37) weds 8-mo pregnant Molly Nartin (25)
1995 : Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL v Aust, MCG)

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