Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 26

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  William Shakespeare
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  A tsunami generated by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake in Ao Nang, Thailand
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  Babe Ruth
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  Jack Johnson
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  Flannan Isles Lighthouse

• 1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: French troops under Napoleon engaged Russian forces in both the Battles of Pultusk and Golymin.
• 1811 – Seventy-two people died when a theater in Richmond, Virginia, US, was destroyed by fire—the worst urban disaster in American history at the time.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate defenders were victorious in the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou as the Union Army attempted to capture the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
• 1871 – Thespis, the first comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, made its debut at the Gaiety Theatre, London, UK.
• 1900 – A relief crew arrived at the lighthouse (pictured) on the Flannan Isles of Scotland and discovered that the previous crew had disappeared without a trace.
• 1996 – Six-year-old American beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado, a murder that generated extensive coverage from the American media.
• 1996 – The Federation of Korean Trade Unions called upon its 1.2 million members to walk off the job, beginning the largest organized strike in South Korea's history.
• 2006 – The Hengchun earthquake struck off the southwest coast of Taiwan, on the anniversaries of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that devastated coastal communities across Southeast and South Asia, and of the 2003 Bam earthquake that destroyed areas of southeastern Iran.