What happend on 26th December

25.12
27.12
2004

A massive earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter magnitude scale creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, The Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean. The death toll is currently estimated at more than 300,000. Officials say the true toll may never be known, due to rapid burials. Indonesia was worst affected with as many as 219,000 people killed.

2003

Major earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands; citadel of Arg-é Bam is destroyed.

2002

French Raelian scientist Brigitte Boisselier says Clonaid has delivered the first of a supposed five clone babies through cesarean section

1999

On the 26-28th, France and countries to east hit by severe storms and rain. Over 100 people were killed, and the storm caused extensive damage to property and trees and the French national power grid.

1998

Iraq announced its intention to fire upon US and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern "no-fly zones"

1998

Severe gales over Ireland, northern England, and southern Scotland. Widespread disruption, widespread power outages in Northern Ireland and southern Scotland

1996

JonBenét Ramsey, a six-year-old beauty queen, was found murdered in her family's basement in Boulder, Colorado

1996

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification goes into force

1991

Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR

1988

Start of the Nanjing Anti-African protests