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Famous People born on December 26th:

1791 Charles Babbage (inventor - mechanical calculators and computers)

Charles Babbage


1891 Henry Miller (author)

1893 Mao Tse-tung (Chinese premier)

Mao


1914 Richard Widmark (actor)

1940 Phil Spector (music producer)


December 26th in History:

1966 Kwanzaa (secular holiday honoring African-American heritage) is created by Ron "Maulana" Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University.

Kwanzaa


1991 The Supreme Soviet meets and agrees to dissolve the USSR.

2004 An earthquake in Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, measuring 9.3 on the Richter Scale creates tsunami waves that sweep across much of the coastlines of Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. At least 290,000 people are killed.


December 26th is also:

Boxing Day (UK, some Commonwealth countries, Ireland)

Boxing Day


Feast of Saint Stephen (Catholicism)

Saint Stephen


1st Day of Christmas

1st Day of Christmas


Kwanzaa (26 December to 1 January) - Celebration of Umoja (Unity)

Kwanzaa


Junkanoo (Nassau in the Bahamas)









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