December 26

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December 26 is the 360th (thirty-sixtieth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 361st (thirty-sixtieth) day of the year in leap years. There are 5 days left to end the year.

Events

838: a large part of the northwest of the Netherlands is flooded by a storm. Bishop Prudencio de Troyes described this flood, and claimed that at least 2437 people died. This flood is also described in the Annales Xantenses.
1246: King Alfonso X of Castile is married to Violante of Aragon in the Colegiata of Valladolid.
1489: In the present Spain, the Catholic Kings reconquer Almeria, a city that had been taken by Al-Zagal and its Moorish troops.
1552: the troops of Emperor Charles I of Spain lift the site of Metz after 60 days of useless efforts.
1598: at the Tornabuoni Palace in the city of Florence (Italy) is represented in private for the first time The Dafne, the first opera of history, composed by the Italian composer Jacopo Peri (1561-1633). It will be released in public on January 21, 1599 at the Pitti Palace in Florence.
1653: In England, Oliver Cromwell is named "protector".
1713: Felipe V signs a Royal Decree, written by Jean Orry, for which Spain is divided into 21 provinces, for administrative and tax purposes.
1776: In New Jersey—in the framework of the United States War of Independence—American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Trenton.
1783: In France, aeronaute Louis-Sébastien Lenormand performs the first parachuting experiment
1792: José Ocáriz, Spanish consul in Paris, publicly protests in a letter for the prisoner status of Luis XVI.
1805: signature of the Treaty of Presbourg.
1815: Casimiro Marcó del Pont replaces Mariano Osorio in the Capitanía General de Chile. He was the last Spanish governor in Chile.
1831: In the Teatro de La Scala (in Milan) the opera Norma, by Vincenzo Bellini, is premiered.
1833: In the Teatro de La Scala (in Milan) the opera Lucrezia Borgia, by Gaetano Donizetti, is premiered.
1863: With the light of the coastal lighthouses of Cape La Heve (France) electricity is first applied in Europe.
1884: Spain announces to the foreign powers under its "protected" the West Coast of Africa between Capes Bojador and Blanco, a territory commonly called Western Sahara.
1906: In Melbourne the first feature film is released for more than an hour, The Story of the Kelly Gang.
1909: The IX Zionist Congress is held in Hamburg.
1917: The United States Government is responsible for the whole system of transport in the country in the face of the disastrous financial situation of the railway companies.
1921: in Madrid, Spain, a new metro station is opened between Puerta del Sol and the Atocha roundabout.
1922: the commission of reparations of the First World War gives faith to the "international bank" of Germany regarding its payments in species.
1923: The United States and Turkey sign a peace treaty in Istanbul.
1923: the reparations commission creates an expert committee led by Charles G. Dawes and Owen D. Young, in order to solve Germany's inability to cope with the debt contracted with the countries of the First World War.
1925: In British India the Communist Party of India was founded.
1927: In Tianjin (North of China) the main deposit of the company Standard Oil Company explodes.
1932: the Italian aviator Renato Donati reaches an altitude of 9700 m with a sports plane.
1941: Given the Japanese advance, Manila is declared an open city and is abandoned by the Philippine Government.
1941: The British take Benghazi by inflicting a strong defeat on Rommel's italo-german forces.
1943: in Turkey an earthquake causes 1800 dead.
1945: the French military government confiscates the mines of the Sarre (Germany).
1948: the Cardinal Primate of Hungary, József Mindszenty, is arrested, imprisoned and prosecuted, accused of espionage for the United States.
1950: Scottish nationalists steal the stone of the coronation, deposited in the abbey of Westminster.
1953: the first kidney transplant of a living donor is performed in Paris under the direction of the French surgeon Jean Hamburger.
1957: In Cairo the Conference of Afro-Asian Solidarity begins, with the participation of the Soviet Union.
1961: Western Europe lives one of the coldest Christmases of the century; in Paris the lowest temperatures have been recorded since 1879.
1967: In the BBC (from London) the film Magical Mystery Tour, by the Beatles, is released.
1971: U.S. bombings against North Vietnam are resumed in the Vietnam War.
1979: Soviet Union troops invade Afghanistan.
1980:In Peru in the capital Lima the terrorist band Sendero Luminoso, collected 7 dead dogs in Lima best known as:
1983: In Japan, the Lower House of Parliament re-elects Yasuhiro Nakasone as Prime Minister.
1990: Soviet Gari Kaspárov retains the title of Champion of the Chess World.
1991: The Soviet Supreme Soviet Chamber of Republics declares the end of the Soviet Union since the ratification of the Treaty of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
1991: the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) gets the absolute majority in the first round of the Algerian elections.
1992: Nigerians approve the new multiparty constitution in referendum.
1993: this year’s Dakar Rally has a round trip and will go through Spain twice.
1997: on the island of Montserrat (mar Caribe) the Soufrière Hills volcano explodes; 19 people die. A small tsunami is created, causing damage to other islands.
1998: Iraq forms a rupture with the UN and demands the end of the oil embargo.
1999: Alfonso Portillo and the Guatemalteco Republican Front, founded by general coup d’état Efraín Ríos Montt, are the winners of the second round of Guatemala’s presidential elections.
2000: Mir space station loses contact with the control center for more than 20 hours.
2002: Iran prohibits stoning to improve its international image.
2003: in Cordoba, Argentina, there is a strong F3-intensity tornado with winds up to 200 km/h causing at least three deaths, two missing, 45 wounded, hundreds of evacuees and numerous material damage.
2003: In the city of Bam, Iran, there is an earthquake of magnitude 6.7 at a depth of 40 km, causing more than 50,000 deaths and ruining its citadel.
2004: a chain of tsunamis, caused by an earthquake of magnitude 9.3 near Sumatra, mainly affect Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. More than 230,000 people were killed throughout the interdiction, while thousands of people were missing.
2006: In Lagos (Nigeria), a pipeline explodes, killing at least 200 people.
2016: At Lake Alberto in Uganda, at least nine people die and 21 others disappear when they shipwrecked a boat in which they traveled a Ugandan football team and their followers.

Births

1194: Frederick II Hohenstaufen, German emperor (f. 1250).
1747: Esteban de Arteaga, musicologist and Spanish Jesuit writer (f. 1799).
1756: Bernard de Lacépède, zoologist, politician and French musician (f. 1825).
1771: Julia Clary, Spanish consort queen, wife of José Bonaparte (f. 1845).
1791: Charles Babbage, British scientist and mathematician (f. 1871).
1791: José Gutiérrez de la Vega, a Spanish painter (f. 1865).
1820: Dion Boucicault, an Irish actor (f. 1890).
1832: Sergio Camargo, Colombian president (f. 1907).
1837: George Dewey, American Admiral (f. 1917).
1848: Alberto Bosch and Fustegueras, Spanish politician (f. 1900).
1854: José Yves Limantour, Mexican politician (f. 1935).
1863: Charles Pathé, French filmmaker (f. 1957).
1867: Julien Benda, French writer and philosopher (f. 1956).
1872: Norman Angell, British writer and politician, Nobel Peace Prize in 1933 (f. 1967).
1873: José Oliva Nogueira, journalist and Argentine writer (f. 1945).

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1876: Virginia Bolten, anarchist activist and journalist and Argentine feminist (f. 1960).
1880: Elton Mayo, an Australian philosopher (f. 1949).
1883: Maurice Utrillo, French painter (f. 1955).
1887: Arthur Ernest Percival, British General (f. 1966).
1891: Henry Miller, American writer (f. 1980).
1893: Mao Zedong, Chinese politician (f. 1976).
1900: José Gaos, Spanish philosopher (f. 1969).
1901: Juan José Barcia Goyanes, Spanish doctor (f. 2003).
1901: Peter van de Kamp, Dutch astronomer (f. 1995).
1904: Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer and musicologist (f. 1980).
1904: James Stern, Irish writer (f. 1993).
1904: Leopoldo Fernández, Cuban humorist (f. 1985).
1910: Argentine Empire, Argentine-Spanish actress and singer (f. 2003).
1911: Renato Guttuso, an Italian painter (f. 1987).
1912: Julio Philippi Left, lawyer, diplomat and Chilean politician (f. 1997).
1914: Richard Widmark, American actor (f. 2008).
1915: Piotr Abrámov, Soviet pilot (f. 2007).
1918: Georgios Rallis, Greek Prime Minister (f. 2006).
1920: Fernando Argila, Spanish footballer (f. 2015).
1921: Steve Allen, American animator, composer and comedian (f. 2000).
1922: José María Rodero, a Spanish actor (f. 1991).
1926: Earle Brown, American composer (f. 2002).
1928: Martin Cooper, American engineer.
1930: Fanny Mikey, actress, director and theatre entrepreneur colombo-argentina, also called the Queen of Theatre or the Queen of Tablets (f. 2008).
1933: José Luis Illanes Maestre, Spanish theologian.
1935: Gnassingbé Eyadéma, president of Togo between 1967 and 2005 (f. 2005).
1937: John Horton Conway, British mathematician (f. 2020).
1939: Germán Correa, a Chilean sociologist and politician.
1939: Phil Spector, American producer and musician (f. 2021).
1940: Edward C. Prescott, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 2004.
1941: Daniel Schmid, Swiss filmmaker (f. 2006).
1942: Vinicio Cerezo, a Guatemalan politician, president of Guatemala between 1986 and 1991.
1944: Txutxi Aranguren, footballer and Spanish coach (f. 2011).
1946: Marina Cárdenas, singer of Nicaraguan Boleros (f. 2014).
1947: Víctor Hugo Morales, journalist, sports rapporteur and Uruguayan driver.
1949: José Ramos-Horta, Timorese politician, President of East Timor between 2007 and 2012.
1951: John Scofield, American jazz musician.
1952: Manuel Marfán, Chilean economist.
1953: Leonel Fernández, Dominican politician, president of the Dominican Republic between 1996-2000 and 2004-2012.
1953: Toomas H. Ilves, Estonian politician, president of Estonia between 2006 and 2016.
1953: Henning Schmitz, German musician, Kraftwerk.
1954: Ozzie Smith, American baseball player.
1958: Adrian Newey, British Formula 1 engineer.
1959: Mariano Barroso, Spanish filmmaker.
1959: Glenna Cabello, Venezuelan polytologist
1959: Luis Eduardo Motoa, Colombian actor.
1959: Kōji Morimoto, animator and Japanese filmmaker.
1960: Temuera Morrison, New Zealand actor.
1960: Emilio del Valle, Spanish politician.
1962: James Kottak, German drummer, Scorpions band.
1963: Lars Ulrich, Danish drummer, of the Metallica band.
1964: Elizabeth Kostova, American writer.
1966: Jay Farrar, American composer and singer.
1967: Marcos Montes, Argentine actor.
1969: Thomas Linke, German footballer.
1970: James Mercer, American musician and guitarist, of the band The Shins.
1971: David Kavlín, actor, singer, journalist and Argentine television driver.
1971: Jared Leto American actor and musician, from the band 30 Seconds to Mars.
1971: Jonathan M. Parisen, American filmmaker.
1971: Tatiana Sorokko, high-season collector and Russian expatriate model in the United States.
1972: Esteban Fuertes, Argentine soccer player.
1974: Joshua John Miller, American actor.
1975: Pablo Puyol, actor and dancer and Spanish singer.
1975: Marcelo Rios, Chilean tennis player.
1975: María Vasco, a Spanish athlete.
1976: Pablo García Fernández, Spanish guitarist, of the WarCry band.
1979: Fabian Carini, Uruguayan footballer.
1979: Chris Daughtry, American musician.
1979: Xavier Florencio, Spanish cyclist.
1980: Todd Dunivant, American footballer.
1981: Omar Infante, Venezuelan baseball player.
1985: Shirota Yuu, Japanese actor, singer and model.
1986: Kit Harington, British actor.
1986: Hugo Lloris, French footballer.
1986: Selen Soyder, actress and queen of Turkish beauty.
1989: Sofiane Feghouli, Algerian footballer.
1990: Andy Biersack, American singer, from the Black Veil Brides band.
1990: Aaron Ramsey, British footballer, captain of the Welsh Soccer Team.
1992: Jade Thirlwall, British singer, Little Mix.
1999: Leo Wu, Chinese actor.
2007: Christian J. Simon, American actor.

Deaths

268: Saint Dionisius, Roman pope, between 259 and 268 (n.?).
418: Saint Zósimo, Italian Pope, canonized by the Catholic Church.
1332: Philip I of Tarento, Prince of Tarento (n. 1278).
1350: Juan de Marigny, French prelate (n.?).
1476: Galeazo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (n. 1444).
1530: Babur, Mongol emperor (n. 1483).
1624: Simon Marius, German astronomer (n. 1573).
1727: Baltasar de Zúñiga, Spanish conqueror (n. 1658).
1736: Antonio Caldara, Italian musician and composer (n. 1670).
1764: Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, a Spanish writer (n. 1676).
1771: Claude-Adrien Helvétius, a French philosopher (n. 1715).
1780: John Fothergill, British physician (n. 1712).
1797: John Wilkes, British journalist and politician (n. 1725).
1818: Isabel de Portugal, queen consorte española, second wife of Fernando VII (n. 1797).
1820: Joseph Fouché, a French politician (n. 1759).
1831: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Indian poet (n. 1809).
1855: Carlos Martínez de Irujo and McKean, Spanish diplomat and politician (n. 1802).
1868: Joaquín Suárez, Acting President of Uruguay (n. 1781).
1880: Manuel Murillo Toro, Colombian president (n. 1816).
1890: Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (n. 1822).
1909: Frederic Remington, cowboy, American artist and sculptor (n. 1861).
1921: Miguel Ramón Demetrio Faílde and Pérez, a Cuban musician and composer (n. 1852).
1923: Dietrich Eckart, German Nazi politician and ideologist (n. 1868).
1925: Jan Letzel, Czech architect (n. 1880).
1929: Felipe Canales, Mexican lawyer and peacemaker (n. 1896).
1931: Melvil Dewey, American librarian (n. 1851).
1946: Rafael Álvarez Ovalle, a Guatemalan composer (n. 1858).
1949: Mateo Hernández, Spanish sculptor and painter (n. 1884).
1959: Pierre de Gaulle, French politician (n. 1897).
1966: Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (n. 1905).
1966: José Yárnoz, Spanish architect (n. 1884).
1971: Robert Lowery, American actor (n. 1913).
1971: Nury Montsé, an Argentine actress of Spanish origin (n. 1917).
1972: Harry S. Truman, American President (n. 1884).
1974: Jack Benny, American actor (n. 1894).
1974: Farid al-Atrash, a Syrian musician and actor (n. 1915).
1977: Howard Hawks, American filmmaker (n. 1896).
1980: Tony Smith, American sculptor and visual artist (n. 1912).
1985: Dian Fossey, American Zoologist (n. 1932).
1985: Hal Warren, filmmaker, screenwriter and American film producer (n. 1923).
1986: Elsa Lanchester, British actress (n. 1902).
1988: Pablo Sorozábal, Spanish composer (n. 1897).
1991: Orlando Millas, a Chilean lawyer and politician (n. 1918).
1994: Sylva Koscina, Croatian-Italian actress (n. 1933).
1997: Isaac Aisemberg, Argentine writer and writer (n. 1918).
1997: Cornelius Castoriadis, Franco-Greek philosopher and psychoanalyst (n. 1922).
1999: Curtis Mayfield, American musician (n. 1942).
1999: Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India (1992-1997) (n. 1918).
2000: Jason Robards, American actor (n. 1922).
2001: Gius, screenwriter, libretist and Argentine playwright (n. 1927).
2001: Nigel Hawthorne, British actor (n. 1929).
2002: Herb Ritts, American photographer (n. 1952).
2005: Narcissus Irureta, Chilean politician (n. 1924).
2005: Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (n. 1948).
2006: Gerald Ford, American politician, president between 1974 and 1977 (n. 1913).
2007: María Ángeles Sabor Riera, Argentine historian and librarian (n. 1911).
2009: Francisco Gil de Sola Caballero, Spanish navy (n. 1918).
2009: Yves Rocher, a French entrepreneur (n. 1930).
2010: Salvador Jorge Blanco, politician, lawyer and Dominican president between 1982 and 1986 (n. 1926).
2010: Pastorita Núñez, politician and Cuban guerrilla (n. 1921).
2010: Ricardo Rey Polis, Peruvian engineer and professor (n. 1921).
2010: Teena Marie, American singer (n. 1956).
2011: Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor (n. 1940).
2011: Gonzalo Torrente Malvido, Spanish writer and writer (n. 1935).
2012: Gerry Anderson, British producer, writer and filmmaker (n. 1929).
2012: Fontella Bass, American pop singer, soul and rhythm and blues (n. 1940).
2013: Doctor Tangalanga, Argentine comedian (n. 1916).
2016: Jaume Camprodon Rovira, Spanish bishop (n. 1926).
2018: Roy Jay Glauber, American physicist, nobel physics award in 2005 (n. 1925).
2020: George Blake, British spy (n. 1922).
2020: Tito Rojas, Puerto Rican salsa singer (n. 1955).
2021: Károlos Papulias, Greek politician, president of Greece between 2005 and 2015 (n. 1929).
2021: Desmond Tutu, clergyman and South African activist, the Nobel Peace Prize 1984 (n. 1931).
2021: Edward Osborne Wilson, American biologist (n. 1929).