Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: December 26
December 26, 2024 is the 361st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 5 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Capricorn is your zodiac sign. Turquoise is your modern birthstone. Onyx is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: December 26
- 1811 –A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.
- 1861 –American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James M. Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and United Kingdom.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.
- 1870 –The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
- 1944 –World War II: Patton’s Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
- 1976 –The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
- 1980 –Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service.
- 1986 –The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.
- 1996 –Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
- 2004 –A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000 people including over 1700 on a moving train.
Who were born on December 26?
- 1687 –Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (d. 1755)
- 1907 –Al Gore Sr., American Politician (d. 1998)
- 1914 –Annemarie Wendl, German actress (d. 2006)
- 1935 –Norm Ullman, Canadian hockey player
- 1942 –Gray Davis, American politician and 37th Governor of California
- 1944 –Jane Lapotaire, British actress
- 1961 –Andrew Lock, Australian mountaineer
- 1966 –Sandra Taylor, American model and actress
- 1971 –Mika Nurmela, Finnish footballer
- 1979 –Chris Daughtry, American singer
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