26 December It Happened Today
1893 Birth of Mao-Tse-tung.
1914 Birth of American actor Richard Widmark.
1943 The German battlecruiser scharnhorst is sunk by the Royal Navy.
1972 Death of former US President Harry S Truman.
1974 Death of American comedian Jack Benny.
2004 A tsunami in the Indian Ocean kills an estimated 300000 people.
