Wikipedia:Main Page history/2016 December 26

Saint George and the Dragon

• ... that the spikes of the dragon in the sculpture Saint George and the Dragon (pictured) by Bernt Notke are made of moose antlers?
• ... that Gaye LeBaron wrote more than 8,000 columns for The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, California, and hers were considered "the most popular feature in the paper"?
• ... that cyclist Eugenio Colombani also represented Egypt at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Greco-Roman wrestling?
• ... that the Aravalli Mountains contain intensely deformed rocks?
• ... that Indian Trotskyist state legislator Kanai Pal was jailed soon after being elected in 1962?
• ... that the greater long-nosed armadillo is sometimes preyed on by bush dogs which enter its burrow and drag it out?
• ... that Hawaii's first Protestant minister James Kekela saved an American sailor from cannibals and was presented with a gold watch from President Abraham Lincoln?
• ... that The Foo Show is an interactive virtual-reality talk show?

The Tupolev Tu-154 in May 2016

• English singer, songwriter, and record producer George Michael dies at the age of 53.
• A Tupolev Tu-154 (pictured) crashes near Sochi, Russia, killing all 92 people on board, including 64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble.
• The United Nations Security Council adopts a resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
• Syrian government forces retake control of the besieged areas of Aleppo.
• More than 30 people are killed by government security forces as protests break out across the Democratic Republic of the Congo following Joseph Kabila's refusal to step down after the completion of his scheduled term in office.

Flannan Isles Lighthouse

• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: In the predawn hours, George Washington and his army crossed the Delaware River to launch a surprise attack against the Hessian forces at the Battle of Trenton.
• 1871 – Thespis, the first comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, made its debut at the Gaiety Theatre, London, UK.
• 1900 – A relief crew arrived at the Flannan Isles Lighthouse (pictured) of Scotland and discovered that the previous crew had disappeared without a trace.
• the largest organized strike in South Korea's
  history.
• 2006 – The Hengchun earthquake struck off the southwest coast of Taiwan, on the anniversaries of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that devastated coastal communities across Southeast and South Asia, and of the 2003 Bam earthquake that destroyed areas of southeastern Iran.

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