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Events, deaths, births, of 26 DEC [For Dec 26 Julian go to Gregorian date: 1582~1699: Jan 05 1700s: Jan 06 1800s: Jan 07 1900~2099: Jan 08] |
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1962 Eight East Berliners escape to West Berlin in an armor-plated
bus crashing through gates. 1953 The United States announces the withdrawal of two divisions from Korea. 1953 Se realiza en París el primer trasplante de riñón de un donante vivo bajo la dirección del cirujano francés Jean Hamburger. [a surgeon named Hamburger! would you trust him?] 1948 El cardenal primado de Hungría, Jozsef Mindszenty, es detenido, encarcelado y procesado, acusado de espionaje en favor de Estados Unidos. 1947 British transfer Heard and McDonald Islands (Indian Ocean) to Australia. 1945 The United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain end a 10-day meeting, seeking an atomic rule by the UN Council.
1943 El general George Smith Patton recibe una advertencia por haber ordenado que fuesen azotados unos soldados que estaban bajo shock de granadas. 1941 Los británicos toman Bengasi infligiendo una fuerte derrota a las fuerzas italo-germanas de Rommel. 1941 General Douglas MacArthur declares Manila an open city in the face of the onrushing Japanese Army. Tank Battle South of Manila, Losses Heavy: Fighting Is Bitter: Defenders North of the Philippine Capital Strengthen Lines: Oil Afire in Manila: Japanese Planes Go On Bombing Port Area Despite 'Open City' 1941 New Enemy Force 280 km North of Singapore.Chinese Join Battle: British Total of Losses Is Reduced Greatly When 'Lost' Units Appear. British Shift at Singapore Replaces Brooke-Popham.
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1933 US forswears armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere
1926 The Length of Africa by Motorcar The first overland journey across Africa from south to north was completed when the expedition of Major C. Court Treatt arrived in Cairo, Egypt. Major Treatt had set out from Capetown, South Africa, some twenty-seven months earlier in two military-style Crossley automobiles. After the difficult trek across unmapped regions, the hero's safe arrival in Cairo was a major treat for everyone. 1925 Six US destroyers are ordered from Manila to China to protect US interests in the civil war that is being waged there. 1925 Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar. 1921 The Catholic Irish Free State becomes a self-governing dominion of Great Britain. 1917 As a wartime measure, President Woodrow Wilson places railroads under government control, with Secretary of War William McAdoo as director general. 1916 Joffre es separado del alto mando y sustituido por el general Robert G. Nivelle. 1909 Se celebra en Hamburgo el IX Congreso Sionista. 1884 España anuncia a las potencias extranjeras que tiene bajo su protectorado la costa occidental de África comprendida entre los cabos Bojador y Blanco, territorio comúnmente denominado Sáhara Occidental.
1866 Brig. Gen. Philip St. George Cooke, head of the Department of the Platte, receives word of the Fetterman Fight in Powder River County in the Dakota territory. 1863 Por primera vez se aplica la electricidad en Europa con el alumbrado de los faros costeros del cabo de La Heve (Francia). 1863 Skirmish at Sand Mountain, Alabama 1862 1st US navy hospital ship enters service
1861 Union Major Robert Anderson evacuates Fort Moultrie and occupies Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina 1848 First gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to San Francisco 1848 William and Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia.
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1799 George Washington is eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen." [he did not mention a possible exception: Washington's slaves]. 1792 José Ocáriz, cónsul español en París, protesta públicamente en una carta por la condición de prisionero a que se ve sometido Luis XVI. 1786 Daniel Shay leads a rebellion in Massachusetts to protest the seizure of property for the non-payment of debt. 1776 After crossing the Delaware River into New Jersey, George Washington leads an attack on Hessian mercenaries at Trenton, and takes 900 prisoners. Las tropas británicas son derrotadas por las estadounidenses en la batalla de Trenton (New Jersey), durante la Guerra de Independencia de Estados Unidos. 1773 Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia 1713 Felipe V firma un Real Decreto, redactado por Jean Orry, por el que España queda dividida en 21 provincias, con fines administrativos y tributarios. 1653 Oliver Cromwell se erige en protector (dictador) de Inglaterra. 1620 Plymouth Colony was settled by the "Mayflower"colonists. (In 1691 Plymouth joined other neighboring settlements to form the royal colony of Massachusetts.) | |||
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Deaths which
occurred on a December 26: 2000 Janice Hagerty, 46, office manager; Cheryl Troy, vice president of human resources; Louis Javelle; Craig Wood, 29; Jennifer Bragg Capobianco, 29; Paul Marceau, 36; Rose Manfredi, 48, employees of Edgewater Technology murdered by fellow employee Michael McDermott, 42, "gone postal" with an AK-47-style assault rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun, and a semiautomatic handgun, in Wakefield, Massachusetts, at about 11:00. At his April 2002 trial, McDermott would claim that he thought he was killing Hitler and his staff. The prosecutor would argue that McDermott is faking insanity. On 24 April 2002, the jury would convict McDermott on seven counts of first-degree murder, which means a mandatory maximum sentence under Massachusetts law: life in prison without the possibility of parole. 2000 Andre Beukes, 27, policeman, as his speedboat goes over 50-meter- high Loskop Dam in South Africa. His wife and baby were waiting for him on the shore. 1998 Luan Phi Dawson, from being hit by a piece of flying metal while waiting to board a ride at Disneyland on 24 December 1998. His wife and a Disneyland employee were also injured. 1997 Cahit Arf, mathematician.
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1992 Kemeny,
mathematician. 1990 Nancy Cruznan, 33. accident victim/right-to-die case 1979 Hasse, mathematician. 1972 Harry Truman, 88, 33rd US President, in Kansas City, Missouri. 1966 Subbotin, mathematician. 1949 Mateo Hernández Sánchez, escultor y pintor español. 1947 Some 80 persons because of weather as snow blankets the Northeast US, burying New York City under 65 cm of snow in 16 hours.
1909 Frederic Sackrider Remington, in Canton, New York, Western painter and sculptor born on 04 October 1861. An example of his work as an illustrator is online: Theodore Roosevelt's Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail . MORE ON REMINGTON AT ART 4 DECEMBER LINKS Great Explorers Bringing Home the New Cook Cavalry Officer Cowboy Cow Puncher Infantry Soldier Warning Shot The Advance Guard On the Trail Rounding-up the Bear Great Explorers Buffalo Runner Buffalo Runner Army Packer Breaking Horses Cavalryman of the Line 1896 Margaretha (Margi) Roosenboom Vogel, Dutch artist born on 24 October 1843. 1862 38 Santee Sioux, hanged in Mankato, Minnesota for their part in the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. Little Crow has fled the state. 1823 Jean-François Hue, French artist born on 01 December 1751. [Serait-ce parce qu'il était hué que je ne trouve rien de lui dans l'internet? Ou bien, Hue sans accent, avait-il un rival du nom de Dia?] 1676 Dominicus Wanto van Tol, Dutch artist born in 1635. 1686 Henri Mauperché (or Montpercher), French artist born in 1602. LINKS Landscape with Jephthah and his Daughter 0418 St Zosimus, Pope 0268 St Dionysius, Pope |
Births which occurred on
a December 26:
1949 Moncho Borrajo Domarco, humorista español. [No lo vayan a llamar Mucho Borracho Domecq] 1944 The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, is first performed publicly, at the Civic Theatre in Chicago. 1942 Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, President of Guatemala (1986- ) 1937 John Conway, mathematician. 1937 Etienne Gnassingbe Eyadema, presidente de Togo.
1907 Leonard Carlitz, mathematician. 1904 Alejo Carpentier, escritor y musicólogo cubano. 1903 Bosanquet, mathematician. 1893 Mao Tse-tung , founding father of the People's Republic of China, who died on 09 September 1976. He wrote Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (the little red book MAO ONLINE:), PM of China P.R. (1949-76) [Selection in Chinese with translation] 1893 Robert Ripley, US newspaper cartoonist; founded "Ripley's Believe It or Not!". He died on 27 May 1949. 1891 Henry Miller US novelist (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer). He died on 07 June 1980. 1873 Sir Norman Angell, English economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who died on 07 October 1967. 1865 Coffee percolator, patented by James H Mason (Mass.) 1861 Engel, mathematician. 1854 Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo. 1853 René Bazin, escritor francés. 1837 George Dewey, Admiral of the US Navy: Spanish-American War: hero of Manila: ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley. ). He died on 16 January 1917. 1832 Sergio Camargo, presidente de Gobierno colombiano. 1825 Erie Canal opens. 1820 Dion Boucicault, Irish-born US playwright and actor, who died on 18 September 1890. | ||||
1759 Johann Georg von Dillis, German artist who died on 28 September 1841. Waterfalls in a Mountain Forest (1797, 35x30cm) _ detail 1 _ detail 2 1755 Balthasar Paul Ommeganck, Flemish artist who died on 18 January 1826.
1194 Frederick II, Iesi, Italy, German Emperor (1212-1250) |