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Events on December 26

• 1620 The Pilgrim Fathers, who had landed with the Mayflower in New England, founded the settlement of Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts.
• 1734 The second cantata of Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio is premiered in Leipzig.
• 1805 The Treaty of Pressburg following the Battle of Austerlitz ends the War of the Third Coalition. The defeated Austrian Empire must accept heavy territorial losses, and Francis I must recognize Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor of the French.
• 1898 Marie Curie and Gustave Bémont announce the discovery of the chemical element radium, which was made on 21 December.
• 1943 The German battleship Scharnhorst is sunk during the Second World War in an engagement with two British battle groups in the North Sea off Norway. Of the crew of 1,968 men, only 36 sailors survive.
• 1973 The film The Exorcist is released in cinemas in the United States.
• 1978 The first Paris-Dakar Rally starts in Paris.
• 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns from his office as President of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is thereby definitively dissolved.
• 1999 Storm Lothar devastates parts of northern and western Europe with winds of over 200 km/h and claims over 100 lives.
• 2003 In a severe earthquake of magnitude 6.6 to 6.8 on the MW scale in the Iranian province of Kerman in southeastern Iran, the city of Bam is largely destroyed. Between 30,000 and 60,000 people are killed.
• 2004 The rerun of Ukraine's presidential election runoff is largely fair. Viktor Yushchenko is subsequently elected President of Ukraine.
• 2015 The gravitational-wave event GW151226 is detected by LIGO at 03:38 UTC. It is the second directly measured and scientifically confirmed gravitational-wave signal.

Born on December 26

• 1874 Rosa Albach-Retty, Austrian actress
• 1883 Maurice Utrillo, French painter
• 1891 Henry Miller, American writer
• 1893 Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary and politician
• 1941 Klaus-Michael Bonsack, German bobsledder
• 1961 Jörg Schüttauf, German actor
• 1971 Jared Leto, American actor
• 1981 Johannes Oerding, German singer
• 1982 Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian alpine skier
• 1990 Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „26. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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