WHAT HAPPENED ON 26. DECEMBER
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Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium. (26. December 1898)

A relief crew arrives at the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles of Scotland, UK, only to find the previous crew has disappeared without a trace. (26. December 1900)

Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee. (26. December 1919)

Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar. (26. December 1925)

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States. (26. December 1941)

World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces. (26. December 1943)

World War II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium. (26. December 1944)

Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy. (26. December 1948)

The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level. (26. December 1963)

The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach. (26. December 1966)

Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history. (26. December 1972)

The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) is founded. (26. December 1976)

Time's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer. (26. December 1982)

The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union. (26. December 1991)

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 hijackers. (26. December 1994)

Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado. (26. December 1996)

Start of the largest strike in South Korean history. (26. December 1996)

The Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore. (26. December 1997)

Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones. (26. December 1998)

The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage. (26. December 1999)