December 26 holidays, events, history
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇳🇦 Namibia – Family Day.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria – Father’s Day.
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands – Thanksgiving Day.
🇺🇸 USA, 🇨🇦 Canada – Kwanzaa Festival.
🇦🇷 Argentina, 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇦🇺 Australia, 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇧🇬 Bulgaria, … – Boxing Day.
🇸🇮 Slovenia – Independence and Unity Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1530 – Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur died.
– 1606 – First production of “King Lear”.
– 1790 – Louis XVI issued a decree on the “Influence of Religion on Citizenship”.
– 1792 – English inventor Charles Babbage invented the calculating machine.
– 1805 – The Treaty of Pressburg is signed.
– 1806 – The Battle of Plutsk.
– 1811 – The Richmond Theater fire, the worst disaster in the United States at the time.
– 1825 – The Decembrists staged a rebellion in front of the Senate.
– 1898 – Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the element radium.
– 1919 – The Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR adopted a decree “On the Elimination of Illiteracy in the RSFSR”.
– 1931 – The Dat Jidosha Seizo automobile company was founded in Tokyo, which was renamed Nissan the following year.
– 1939 – An earthquake in the Turkish city of Erzincan claimed the lives of about 39,000 people.
– 1941 – The Kerch operation.
– 1974 – The Salyut-4 space station was launched.
– 1975 – The supersonic Tu-144 passenger aircraft was put into operation.
– 1989 – The Olot district was established.
– 1991 – The USSR was officially dissolved.
– 1991 – Diplomatic relations were established between Uzbekistan and Australia.
– 1991 – The Republic of India, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the United Mexican States, the Kingdom of Thailand, the Republic of Tunisia, the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, and the Republic of Hungary recognized the sovereignty of Uzbekistan.
– 2013 – The Budget Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan was approved.
– 2003 – The Bam (Iran) earthquake.
– 2004 – An earthquake in the Indian Ocean caused a terrible tsunami.
