The December 26th is the 360e Jour of the Année (361e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 5 days before the end of the year.

Events

20th century

  • 1901 : Completion of the railway line of the Uganda, which connects Mombassa to the Lake Victoria.

  • 1925 :
    • the Indian Communist party is founded.
    • the Turkey adopts the Gregorian Calendrier.
  • 1929 : The Soviet mode decides to abolish the festival of Christmas.
  • 1938 :
    • Tchang Kaï-chek rejects the Japanese peace plan.
    • a Peruvian declaration , against any foreign intervention, is approved by a Pan-American conference.
  • 1941 : War of the Pacific: the capital of the Filipino , Manila, is declared city opened by the Americans.
  • 1944 : The German troops are pushed back with Bastogne in Belgium.
  • 1945 : In France, the frankly is devaluated of 66%.
  • 1961: Leaders of UNO show the Rhodesia of North to have helped the Congolese province secessionist of the Katanga in its resistance to the " blue helmets ".
  • 1962 : On board a bus launched at full speed, eight refugees force the communist stoppings and reach West Berlin.
  • 1971 :
    • Sixteen war veterans of the Vietnam occupy the Statue of Freedom, in the port of New York, in order to claim the end of the hostilities in the South-East Asia.
    • Patrick Dolan Critton seizes a plane of Air Canada, at the beginning of Thunder Bay; eighty-two passengers are released with Toronto, the pirate will reach Cuba, then will live twenty years in Tanzania before leaving to the the United States; he will be brought back to Toronto and will be shown in November 2001.
  • 1973 : Landing of Soyuz 13.
  • 1974 : The Soviet launch an automatic scientific cabin around the ground.
  • 1975 : Transporting mail of Moscow to Alma-ATA, the Tupolev 144 is the first supersonic civil aircraft in service.
  • 1977 : Israeli the Prime Minister Menahem Begin and the Egyptian president Anouar el-Sadate meet with Ismaïlia without managing to agree on problems of the the Middle East.
  • 1986 : The Argentinian president Raúl Alfonsín sign a Amnesty for the repression and the tortures made under the military regime.
  • 1989 : Petre Roman is named Prime Minister in Romania.
  • 1990 : The Algerian Parlement decides the generalization of the use of the Arab language before 1997.
  • 1991 :
  • 1992 : Peace agreement signed between the two principal " lords of the guerre" in Somalia, the general Mohamed Farrah Aidid and the " chair by intérim" Ali Mahdi Mohamed.
  • 1993 : Centenary of the birth of the great helmsman Mao Zedong.
  • 1994 :
    • with Marseilles, airport of Marignane, attack of the plane Airbus A300 by GIGN. (taken hostages of the December 24th)
    • Four catholic monks, three French and a Belgian, Jean Chevillard , Christian Cheissel , Alain Dieukangard and Charles Deckers , pertaining to the order of the white Fathers, are assassinated with Tizi-Ouzou, capital of the Kabylie. The attack is asserted by GIA.
  • 1996 : A Tropical storm sweeps the North-West of the island of Borneo: hundred twelve dead.
  • 1997 :
    • the politician Jean-Marie Le Pen is condemned to pour damage at eleven organizations to have affirmed, the December 5th with Munich, that the gas chambers Nazis are “a detail of the History”.
    • a wave of violence in Algérie cost the life 370 civilians and some 400 islamist in one month.
  • 1999 : A storm (known under the name of hurricane Lothar) crosses the North of the France and the Europe.
  • 2000 : close to Boston, one unbalanced keep silent seven people in a services company Internet.

21e century

  • 2003 :

  • 2004:
    • a seism of magnitude higher than 9 and whose epicentre is located at broad island indonésienne of Sumatra generates a series of Raz-de-marée which causes the death of 281.566 people in the Indian Ocean. (see Earthquake of December 26th, 2004). The assessment for the French tourists, in the December 31st, of 22 will have temporarily died and a hundred missings.
    • Five members of the same family are found stabbed in a small apartment of the center of Toulouse (Haute-Garonne).
    • an explosion due to gas destroys a building of four floors of Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), making 17 died and 15 wounded.
    • the republication of the second turn of the presidential election in Ukraine (after the invalidation of the results of the November 21st for frauds) gives the victory to the candidate of the opposition Viktor Iouchtchenko with 52% of the votes, vis-a-vis the First outgoing minister Viktor Ianoukovytch.
    • a team of French specialists in Hématologie announced on the site of the review Nature Biotechnology, to have, for the first time in the world, succeeded in manufacturing in vitro very great quantities of at the same time mature and functional human red Globules.
  • 2005 : The daily newspaper Le Monde reveals that the government brings the final key to a project of “refillable mortgage deeds” to start again consumption.
  • 2006 : Taiwan: an earthquake of magnitude 7,2 damages underwater cables of communication. Part of the telephone calls and Internet are cut for the Eastern Asia.

Births

Death

Celebrations

  • Boxing Day special Day of aubaines in the majority of the Québécois shopping malls

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

Orthodoxe saints of the day

See too

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