It happened on this day, December 26
Events:
1898 – Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie discovered the radioactive substance radium.
1941 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivers a speech to the U.S. Congress less than three weeks after the United States entered World War II.
1957 – The Conference on Afro-Asian Cooperation is held in Cairo.
1990 – Iranian religious leader Ali Khamenei announces his support for a fatwa issued by his predecessor Khomeini calling for the bloodshed of Salman Rushdie.
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
⭐ The Islamic Salvation Front, led by Abbasi Madani, wins the first round of legislative elections organized on the basis of partisan pluralism in Algeria.
1992 – Kuwaiti Finance Minister and Minister of Planning Nasser Al-Roudhan reopens Kuwait's towers after they were subject to vandalism, looting and destruction during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
1994 – Four armed hijackers take control of Air France Flight 8969 and when the plane lands in Marseille, French forces kill the perpetrators.
2003 – A devastating earthquake hits the Iranian city of Bam, killing a large number of people.
2004 – An earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggers a tsunami, killing nearly 230,000 people in eleven countries.
⭐ Organize the new edition of the presidential elections in Ukraine under strict international supervision after the outbreak of the so-called Orange Revolution.
2017 – Former footballer George Weah was elected President of the Republic of Liberia after defeating his competitor Joseph Boakai in the second round of elections.
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Births:
1893 – Mao Zedong, leader of the Chinese Communist Party.
1921 – Kamal El-Shenawy, Egyptian actor.
1924 – Eli Cohen, Israeli spy.
1928 – Martin Cooper, American inventor and owner of the first telephone call.
1934 – Badr El-Din Jamjoom, Egyptian actor.
1947 – Atef Al-Tayeb, Egyptian director.
1950 – Rajah Pervez Ashraf, Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1961 – Fadia Abdel Ghani, Egyptian actress.
1975 – Badr Al-Jumaa, Kuwaiti football goalkeeper.
**Asaad Al-Zahrani, Saudi actor.
1979 – Ghada Ragab, Egyptian singer and actress.
1989 – Sofiane Feghouli, Algerian footballer.
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Death:
1530 – Emperor Zahir al-Din Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire and first emperor.
1869 – Dr. Jean-Louis Marie Boisoy, French physician and physiologist.
1972 – Harry Truman, 33rd President of the United States.
1974 – Farid Al-Atrash, Syrian-Egyptian singer
1978 – Louay Kayali, Syrian painter, succumbs to his injuries two months after the fire in his studio in Aleppo.
2006 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Boxing Day in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries.
