Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 26
St. Stephen's Day; Kwanzaa begins.
- Royal Assent to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
- discovery of a new element, later to be named radium.
- Heavyweight Champion of the World.
- 1991 - The Supreme Soviet officially dissolved itself and the Soviet Union.
- earthquake in the Indian Ocean generated a tsunami that killed upwards of 200,000 people, mostly in Indonesia.
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