On this day: December 26

December 26: Boxing Day in Commonwealth countries; St. Stephen's Day (Western Christianity); Kwanzaa begins in Canada and the United States

Pierre and Marie Curie

• 1606 – The first recorded performance of the play King Lear, a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the legendary King Lear of the Britons, was held.
• 1825 – Imperial Russian Army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Constantine removed himself from the line of succession.
• 1898 – At the French Academy of Sciences, physicists Pierre and Marie Curie (both pictured) announced the discovery of a new element, naming it radium.
• 1919 – American baseball player Babe Ruth was sold by the Boston Red Sox to their rivals, the New York Yankees, starting the 84-year-long Curse of the Bambino.
• 1991 – The Supreme Soviet officially dissolved itself, completing the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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