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What happened in history on this day: December 26?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On December 26 in ...
- 1923 - Walt Disney receives a telegram from Margaret Winkler, acknowledging receipt of the film Alice's Day at Sea.
- 1927 - Universal Pictures releases the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Rickety Gin to theaters.
- 1941 - The Goofy film The Art of Self Defense is released to theaters.
- 1947 - The Pluto film Pluto's Blue Note is released.
- 1957 - Disney releases the featurette film Mars and Beyond to theaters.
- 1967 - The US Federal Bureau of the Budget announces that California would be granted a right-of-way through Sequoia National Park for improved road access to the Disney's proposed Mineral King ski resort.
- 1994 - Tanzania issues fifteen postage stamps depicting various Disney characters.
- 1998 - Buena Vista releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film Enemy of the State to theaters in Great Britain.
- 1998 - Buena Vista releases the Miramax live-action feature film The Mighty to theaters in Great Britain.
- 2002 - The ABC TV network airs the final episode of the series Dinotopia.
- 2002 - Steve Tate buys Corvette EX-87/5951 from the Bible Broadcasting Network, without the experimental V8 engine, which Tate bought in February.
- 1939 - The first squadron of Royal Australian Air Force on active service lands in England.
- 1941 - (evening) Japanese forces take Carmen.
- 1943 - American Marines begin landing at Cape Gloucester, New Britain.
- 1944 - 294 British Lancaster bombers attack German troops at St. Vith.
- 1944 - (1630 hours) US 4th Armored Division of the US 3rd Army makes contact with the 101st Division defending Bastogne.
- 1944 - (1645 hours) US 4th Armored Division enters Bastogne, lifting the siege.
- 1944 - About 25 American CG-4A gliders land near Bastogne, delivering vital ammunition and medical supplies to American troops pinned there.
- 1993 - Marshall Islands issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the Battle of North Cape.
- 1991 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show. A character plays an arcade video game resembling Ms. Pac-Man.
- 1915 - The steamship Stockholm arrives at New York, USA, completing the first voyage of the Swedish America Line company.
- 2004 - A tsunami in the Indian Ocean kills 428 Swedes in the area.
- 1921 - The Philadelphia Mint begins production of Peace dollars for circulation.
- 1974 - Congress authorizes simultaneous striking of regular-dated coin and Bicentennial (1976-dated) coins.
- 2007 - US President George W. Bush signs into law H.R. 2764, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008, including the District of Columbia and United States Territories Quarter Program, authorizing circulating 2009 quarter dollar coins honoring the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
- 1902 - Most knock downs in a boxing fight, Oscar Nelson (5) and Christy Williams (42).
- 1908 - Jackson Johnson knocks out Tommy Burns in 14 rounds at Sydney, Australia for heavyweight boxing title.
- 1917 - First NHL defensemen to score a goal: Toronto Maple Leafs' Harry Cameron.
- 1918 - First day of first-class cricket in Australia after WWI (Victoria versus New South Wales).
- 1919 - New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth.
- 1925 - First East-West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans.
- 1925 - NHL record 141 shots as New York Americans (73) beat Pittsburgh Pirates (68) 3-1.
- 1928 - Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming.
- 1928 - World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Alan Kippax / Hal Hooker) New South Wales versus Victoria.
- 1933 - Donald Bradman scores 187 New South Wales versus Victoria, 294 minutes, 13 fours.
- 1934 - Yomiuri Giants, Japan's first professional baseball team, forms.
- 1938 - Donald Bradman scores 225 South Australia versus Queensland before Christ gets him out.
- 1938 - Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England versus South Africa.
- 1940 - First-class debut of Arthur Morris, who scores 148.
- 1943 - Chicago Bears win NFL championship.
- 1946 - 35th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Melbourne (5-0).
- 1950 - Gillette and Mutual buy All Star and World Series advertising rights (US$6 million for six years).
- 1954 - Cleveland Browns beat Detroit Lions 56-10 in NFL championship game.
- 1955 - Cleveland Browns beat Los Angeles Rams 38-14 in NFL championship game.
- 1960 - Philadelphia Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game.
- 1964 - Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game.
- 1965 - Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game.
- 1968 - Boston Bruins' Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of three minors, two majors and two game misconducts in a game against the New York Rangers in New York's Madison Square Garden.
- 1975 - A crowd of 85,661 attends the first day of the Australia-West Indies Melbourne Cricket Ground Test Cricket.
- 1981 - One of the great day's Test Cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground Australia versus West Indies.
- 1983 - Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews, versus Pakistan Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1985 - Test Cricket debut of Steve Waugh, versus India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1986 - Doug Jarvis, age 31, sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games.
- 1989 - ODI debut for Mark Taylor and Sanath Jayasuriya at cricket Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1990 - Reggie Williams becomes first general manager of WLAF's New York-New Jersey Knights.
- 1990 - Due to a financial dispute between the club owners, the Fort Myers Sun Sox franchise collapses causing the Senior Professional Association League to fold in the middle of its second season.
- 1991 - Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years.
- 1991 - New York Islanders' Derek King ties New Jersey Devils 5-5 with half second left.
- 1992 - New York Jets' announcer Marty Glickman retires at age 75.
- 1993 - Floyd, Nicklaus and Rodriguez win Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tournament.
- 1995 - Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL versus Australia, Melbourne Cricket Ground).
- 1995 - Paul Adams becomes South Africa's youngest Test Cricket player, 18 years 340 days.
- 2005 - ABC-TV airs the last Monday Night Football after 36 years.
- 1973 - Two Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours.
- 1973 - Soyuz 13 returns to Earth.
- 1974 - The Soviet Salyut 4 space station is launched.
- 1947 - Heavy snow blankets Northeast USA, buries New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours; the same day, Los Angeles sets a record high of 84 degrees F.
- 1776 - US General George Washington defeats Hessians at Trenton, New Jersey.
- 1799 - George Washington is eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen".
- 1805 - Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia, USA.
- 1811 - In Richmond, Virginia, a fire breaks out in a new theater, killing almost eighty, including Governor George Smith.
- 1814 - Congress authorizes 5.4 percent interest-bearing notes.
- 1854 - Wood-pulp paper first exhibited, Buffalo, New York.
- 1862 - First US navy hospital ship enters service.
- 1862 - 38 Santee Sioux Indians are hanged in Mankato, Minnesota, USA due to their uprising.
- 1862 - Battle of Dumfries, Virginia, CSA.
- 1865 - James H Mason (Massachusetts) patents first US coffee percolator.
- 1877 - Socialist Labor Party of North America holds first national convention.
- 1878 - First US store to install electric lights, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1917 - US government takes over operation of American railroad for duration of European war.
- 1933 - US forswears armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere.
- 1941 - Winston Churchill becomes first British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of US Congress, warning that the Axis would "stop at nothing".
- 1944 - Battle of Bastogne-US General Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse the Germans.
- 1944 - Tennessee Williams' play Glass Menagerie premieres in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- 1946 - Gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel opens the Flamingo Hotel and Casino on the desert highway between Las Vegas and the McCarren airport. Cost was nearly $6 million, on an initial budget of $1 million.
- 1947 - Heavy snow blankets Northeast USA, buries New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours; the same day, Los Angeles sets a record high of 84 degrees F.
- 1963 - US furnishes cereal to USSR.
- 1982 - Time magazine's Man of the Year is a computer, first non-human.
- 1991 - Jack Ruby's gun (killed Lee Harvey Oswald) sells for US$220,000 in auction.
- 2018 - After weeks of losses the Dow Jones Industrial Average posts its largest ever one-day point gain: 1,086 points.
Other history:
- 1492 - First Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Christopher Columbus.
- 1773 - Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia.
- 1805 - France and Austria sign Peace of Pressburg.
- 1926 - Prince-regent Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan.
- 1932 - Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu, China.
- 2004 - The re-run of the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election takes place. Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko is declared the victor.
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