December 26

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[edit] Events

• 1606 - First Performance of William Shakespeare's King Lear
• 1620 - Pilgrim Fathers land at what becomes New Plymouth in Massachusetts.
• 1776 - American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton.
• 1792 - The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris.
• 1825 - The Erie Canal opens.
• 1862 - The largest mass-hanging in US history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, killing 39.
• 1870 - The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
• 1883 - Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
• 1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
• 1925 - The Communist Party of India is founded.

[edit] Births

• 1194 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1250)
• 1841 - Joseph Pomeroy Widney, American physician and racial theorist (d. 1938)
• 1893 - Mao Zedong, Chinese military leader and politician (d. 1976)

[edit] Deaths

• 1890 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist.
• 1909 - Frederic Remington, American Old West illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1923 - Dietrich Eckart, early NSDAP member (b. 1868)
• 1972 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884)
• 2006 - Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)