What happend on 26th December

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27.12
1966

The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach

1948

Cardinal Mindszenty arrested in Hungary

1947

26 inches of snowfall in 16 hours in New York City

1946

Flamingo Hotel opens in Las Vegas

1945

CFP franc and CFA franc are created

1944

American troops repulse German forces at Bastogne

1944

The play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams was first publicly performed.

1943

The German warship Scharnhorst sinks off the coast of North Cape in Norway after being attacked by the British Royal Navy late the previous evening.

1933

FM radio is patented

1933

The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo, Japan