What are the important events that happened on December 26? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 26: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 26 is the 360th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 5 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 13, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,445,120 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectahexacontagon’ day.
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Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 53 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,753 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 26 Historical Events
- 1613 –Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, marries Frances Howard.
- 1825 –Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.
- 1862 –The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans die.
- 1898 –Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
- 1925 –Turkey adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
- 1944 –World War II: Patton’s Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
- 1945 –CFP franc and CFA franc are created.
- 1994 –Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the perpetrators.
- 1996 –Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado.
- 1996 –Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
Who were born on December 26?
- 1532 –Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (d. 1576)
- 1883 –Maurice Utrillo, French artist (d. 1955)
- 1903 –Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (d. 1995)
- 1904 –Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (d. 1980)
- 1947 –Richard L. McCormick, President of Rutgers University
- 1955 –Evan Bayh, American politician, 46th Governor of Indiana, and United States Senator from Indiana
- 1970 –Krissada Terrence, Thai singer and actor
- 1980 –Todd Dunivant, American soccer player
- 1985 –Beth Behrs, American actress
- 1990 –Andrew Biersack, singer, Black veil brides, Ana’s Boyfriend
Who died on December 26?
- 418 –Pope Zosimus
- 1624 –Simon Marius, German astronomer (b. 1573)
- 1784 –Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (b. 1743)
- 1960 –Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889)
- 1980 –Tony Smith, American sculptor (b. 1912)
- 1985 –Margarete Schön, German actress (b. 1895)
- 1990 –Gene Callahan, American film art and production designer (b. 1923)
- 1997 –Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and economist (b. 1922)
- 2001 –Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929)
- 2004 –Sir Angus Ogilvy, British businessman (b. 1928)
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