Some of infamous gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel’s On December 26, General George S. Patton employs an audacious strategy to relieve the besieged Allied defenders of Bastogne, Belgium, during the brutal Battle of the Bulge. In addition, about 15,000 people died in India. The Exorcist was based on William Peter Blatty’s On December 26, 1609 or 1610 (sources are not conclusive), Count Gyorgy Thurzo makes an investigative visit to Csejthe Castle in Hungary on orders from King Matthias and discovers Countess Elizabeth Bathory directing a torture session of young girls. The killer waves even reached 5,000 miles away in South Africa, where two people perished.In total, about 190,000 people are confirmed dead with another 40,000 to 45,000 missing and presumed dead. Bathory was already infamous On December 26, 1956, the visionary carmaker Preston Tucker dies of lung cancer. A powerful earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, on December 26, 2004 sets off a tsunami that wreaks death and devastation across the Indian Ocean coastline.
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The seven-day holiday, which has strong African roots, was designed by Dr. Karenga as a celebration of Jack Johnson becomes the first African American to win the world heavyweight title when he knocks out Canadian Tommy Burns in the 14th round in a championship bout near Sydney, Australia.
The quake was the second strongest ever recorded and the estimated 230,000 dead made this disaster one of the 10 worst of all time.It was 7:58 a.m. when the tremendous quake struck beneath the Indian Ocean 160 miles west of Sumatra.
He was just 53 years old. The wave killed tens of thousands of people and severely damaged the country’s northern, eastern, and southern coastal areas.
On December 26, 2004, at 7:59 am local time, an undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1 struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The U.S. entry into the war in April 1917 On December 26, the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst is sunk by British warships in the Arctic after decoded German naval signals reveal that the Scharnhorst is on a mission to attack an Anglo-American convoy to Russia.
Although the waves were not as high as in Aceh, they still brought disaster. More than 200,000 people were killed by a series of waves that flooded coasts from Indonesia to Sri Lanka and even washed ashore on the…
Entire communities were simply swept away by the water in a matter of minutes. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.The tsunami killed at least 225,000 people across a dozen countries, with Not only did it register at approximately a 9.3 magnitude (only the 1960 Chile earthquake measured higher at 9.5, though there may have been stronger tremors prior to the invention of seismographic equipment) and last nearly 10 minutes, the quake moved a full 750 miles of underwater fault line earth up to 40 feet. Albert Einstein believed that mathematics problems should have very complex solutions. Approximately 35,000 people lost their lives and half a million others lost their homes.
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In Sri Lanka, the tsunami came ashore about 90 minutes after the earthquake. The capture of Bastogne was the ultimate goal of the Battle of the Bulge, the German offensive through the On December 26, 1972, former President Harry S. Truman dies in Independence, Missouri.
An animal lover from The first day of the first Kwanzaa is celebrated in Los Angeles under the direction of Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach.
Then-President Richard Nixon called Truman a man of “forthrightness and integrity” who had a deep respect for the office he held and for the people he served, and who “supported and wisely Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox.Hoping to recover from bankruptcy with a bold scheme of colonization, Moses Austin meets with Spanish authorities in San Antonio to ask permission for 300 Anglo-American families to settle in Texas. Trenton’s 1,400 Hessian defenders were still groggy from Eight months after the United States enters World War I on behalf of the Allies, President Woodrow Wilson announces the nationalization of a large majority of the country’s railroads under the Federal Possession and Control Act. A native of Durham, Connecticut, Austin had been a successful merchant in On December 26, 1973, The Exorcist, a horror film starring the actress Linda Blair as a girl possessed by an evil spirit, makes its debut in theaters; it will go on to earn a reputation as one of the scariest movies in history.