2023-12-25 23:14:24
On Tuesday, December 26th, the book of history records, among other things:
1898: With the discovery of the element radium, the French-Polish physicist couple Pierre and Marie Curie succeeded in demonstrating radioactive atomic decay for the first time.
1908: For the first time, a boxer of color becomes heavyweight world champion: Jack Johnson (USA) dethrones Canadian Tommy Burns in Sydney.
1918: Stefan Zweig’s “Legend of a Life” will be performed at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.
1933: The Chinese National Air Force bombs the communist-controlled city of Fuzhou, capital of the coastal province of Fujian (Fukien).
1943: The German battleship “Scharnhorst” sinks in the Barents Sea between Spitsbergen and Novaya Zemlya following a heavy battle with the British battleship “Duke of York”. Of the 1,600 crew, only 36 are rescued.
1948: Hungarian Cardinal Primate József Mindszenty and other Catholic church leaders are arrested and accused of treason for opposing the nationalization of church schools.
1953: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower orders the reduction of American troops on the Korean Peninsula.
1968: Arab terrorists shoot at an Israeli plane at Athens airport.
1978: After bloody riots, the Turkish government imposes martial law on several provinces in southern Anatolia.
1998: A UN plane with 14 people on board is shot down over Angola by members of the rebel organization UNITA.
2008: At least 27 people are killed in an explosion in a residential building in Ukraine.
Birthdays: Maurice Utrillo, French painter (1883-1955); Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), Chinese revolutionary and statesman (1893-1976); Diethard Hellmann, German conductor (1928-1999); Leonel Fernández, Dominican. Politician; 1996-2000 and 2004-2012 President of the Dominican Republic (1953); Lars Ulrich, Danish-American Rock Musician (Metallica) (1963).
Days of death: Marta Eggerth, East-Hungarian. Operetta singer (1912-2013); Jeff Morrow, US actor (1913-1993); Michael Coudenhove-Kalergi, Eastern Painter (1937-2018).
Name days: Stephan, Edbert, Adelhard, Richlind, Erzmart, Stefanie, Senta.
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