26 December

The **26t o December** is the 360t day o the year (361t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 5 days bidin.

## Events

* 1135 - Keeng Stephen o Ingland is crowned.
* 1825 - The Erie Canal opens.
* 1925 - The Communist Pairty o Indie is foondit.
* 1925 - Turkey decides tae adopt the Gregorian calendar, stairtin on 1 Januar 1926. 
* 1933 - The Nissan Motor Company is organisit.
* 1943 - At the Cairo Conference, Winston Churchill decides that Germany needs tae be defeatit afore Japan.
* 1943 - Warld War II: German battleship "Scharnhorst" is sunk in a battle wi twa Breetish ships in the Norse Sea, killin aw but 36 o the 1,968 men on baird.
* 1982 - The personal computer becomes the first non-human tae acame Time magazine's "Person o the Year".
* 1991 - The last institutions o the Soviet Union cease tae exist.
* 1999 - Major storms hit Fraunce an Germany, killin ower 100 fowk.
* 2003 - Thousands o fowk are kilt bi a strang yirdquauk in Bam, Iran.
* 2004 - 2004 Indian Ocean yirdquauk an tsunami: Thousands o fowk are kilt, especially in Indonesie.
* 2004 - Viktor Yushchenko defeats Viktor Yanukovych in the re-run o Ukraine's Preses election.
* 2006 - 260 fowk are kilt bi an oil pipeline explosion in Nigerie.
* 2012 - Shinzo Abe becomes Prime meenister o Japan for a seicont time.
* 2016 - Shinzo Abe becomes the first Prime meenister o Japan tae visit the site o the Pearl Harbor attack in Hawaii.
* 2017 - Honduras an Panama decide tae muive their embassies in Israel frae Tel Aviv tae Jerusalem, efter the semme decision wis made bi the leaders o the Unitit States an Guatemala.
* 2017 - Umwhile perfaisonal fitbawer George Weah is electit Preses o Liberie.

## Births

* 1194 - Frederick II, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1250)
* 1791 - Charles Babbage, Inglis mathemateecian an inventor (d. 1871)
* 1872 - Norman Angell, Inglis jurnalist, author an politeecian (d. 1967)
* 1878 - Alex Raisbeck, Scots fitbawer (d. 1949)
* 1891 - Henry Miller, American writer (d. 1980)
* 1893 - Mao Zedong, Cheenese Communist leader (d. 1976)
* 1904 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban novelist, essayist an musicologist (d. 1980)
* 1914 - Richard Widmark, American actor (d. 2008)
* 1935 - Stevie Chalmers, Scots fitbawer (d. 2019)
* 1939 - Phil Spector, American music producer
* 1942 - Gray Davis, American politeecian, umwhile Govrenor o Californie
* 1947 - Liz Lochhead, umwhile Scots Makar
* 1949 - Jose Ramos-Horta, umwhile Preses o East Timor
* 1953 - Toomas Hendrik Ilves, umwhile Preses o Estonie
* 1963 - Lars Ulrich, Dens-American muisicker (Metallica)
* 1968 - Catherine Calderwood, umwhile Chief Medical Afficer o Scotland
* 1971 - Jared Leto, American actor an muisicker
* 1986 - Hugo Lloris, French fitbawer
* 1989 - Yohan Blake, Jamaican sprinter
* 1990 - Aaron Ramsey, Welsh fitbawer
* 1995 - Zach Mills, American actor

## Daiths
* 268 - Pape Dionysius
* 1530 - Babur, Mughal Emperor (b. 1483)
* 1844 - Thomas Webster, Scots geologist (b. 1772)
* 1890 - Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman an airchaeologist (b. 1822)
* 1901 - Joseph Noel Paton, Scots penter (b. 1821)
* 1972 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1884)
* 1985 - Dian Fossey, American zoologist, primatologist an anthropologist (b. 1932)
* 2006 - Gerald Ford, 38t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1913)
* 2010 - Salvador Jorge Blanco, Preses o the Dominican Republic (b. 1926)
* 2013 - Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-American actress an sangster (b. 1912)
* 2014 - Leo Tindemans, Prime meenister o Belgium (b. 1922)
* 2018 - Roy J. Glauber, American pheesicist (b. 1925)

## Halidays
* Boxin Day
* Saunt Stephen's Day
* First Day o Kwanzaa (Unitit States)