Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 26
December 26: Boxing Day; Wren's Day in Ireland.
- 1790 - French Revolution: Louis XVI of France gave his royal assent to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
- 1898 - Pierre and Marie Curie announced the discovery of a new element, later to be named radium.
- 1966 - The first Kwanzaa was celebrated by Maulana Karenga, a professor at CSU Long Beach
- 1986 - The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, broadcast its final episode after thirty-five years on the air.
- 1991 - The Supreme Soviet officially dissolved itself and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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