December 26

Events

• 887 - Berengar I is elected as king of Italy by the lords of Lombardy. He is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy at Pavia.
• 1481 - Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats troops of Utrecht.
• 1489 - The forces of the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, take control of Almería from the Nasrid ruler of Granada, Muhammad XIII.
• 1776 - American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian forces.
• 1790 - Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
• 1793 - Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeats Austria.
• 1799 - Henry Lee III's eulogy to George Washington in congress declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen".
• 1805 - Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
• 1806 - Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.
• 1811 - A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.
• 1825 - Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Czar Nicholas I but are suppressed in the Decembrist revolt in Saint Petersburg.
• 1860 - The first ever inter-club English association football match takes place between Hallam and Sheffield football clubs in Sheffield.
• 1861 - American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James Murray Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.
• 1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.
• 1862 - Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
• 1862 - The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, where 38 Native Americans died.
• 1871 - Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.
• 1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
• 1919 - Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.
• 1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
• 1943 - World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
• 1944 - World War II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
• 1948 - Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
• 1948 - The last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea.
• 1963 - The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.
• 1966 - The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
• 1968 - The Communist Party of the Philippines is established by Jose Maria Sison, breaking away from the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930.
• 1972 - Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.
• 1975 - Tu-144, the world's first commercial supersonic aircraft, surpassing Mach 2, went into service.
• 1991 - The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union, ending the Cold War.
• 1994 - Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.
• 1998 - Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
• 1999 - The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
• 2003 - The 6.6 Bam earthquake shakes southeastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX, leaving more than 26,000 dead and 30,000 injured.
• 2004 - The 9.1–9.3 Indian Ocean earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX. One of the largest observed tsunamis follows, affecting the coastal areas of Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia; death toll is estimated at 227,898.
• 2004 - Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
• 2012 - China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.
• 2015 - During the December 2015 North American storm complex, a Tornado Outbreak occurred in the DFW Metroplex, with the most notable tornadoes being an EF2, EF3, and an EF4. About a dozen people died due to various reasons, 10 of which due to the EF4, which did substantial damage to the suburb of Rowlett.

  Births

• 1194 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1446 - Charles de Valois, Duke de Berry, French noble
• 1526 - Rose Lok, businesswoman and Protestant exile
• 1532 - Wilhelm Xylander, German scholar and academic
• 1536 - Yi I, Korean philosopher and scholar
• 1537 - Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
• 1581 - Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach
• 1618 - Elisabeth of the Palatinate, German princess, philosopher, and Calvinist
• 1628 - John Page, American politician
• 1646 - Robert Bolling, English-American merchant and planter
• 1687 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist and composer
• 1716 - Thomas Gray, English poet and scholar
• 1716 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French soldier and philosopher
• 1723 - Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright
• 1737 - Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
• 1751 - Lord George Gordon, English lieutenant and politician
• 1751 - Clemens Maria Hofbauer, Austrian priest, missionary, and saint
• 1769 - Ernst Moritz Arndt, German writer and poet
• 1780 - Mary Somerville, Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and author
• 1785 - Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, Belgian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Belgium
• 1782 - Philaret Drozdov, Russian metropolitan and saint
• 1791 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the Difference engine
• 1803 - Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author
• 1819 - E. D. E. N. Southworth, American author and educator
• 1820 - Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright
• 1837 - Morgan Bulkeley, American soldier and politician, 54th Governor of Connecticut
• 1837 - George Dewey, American admiral
• 1852 - Johannes François Snelleman, Dutch zoologist, orientalist, and ethnographer
• 1853 - René Bazin, French author and academic
• 1854 - José Yves Limantour, Mexican financier and politician, Mexican Secretary of Finance
• 1859 - William Stephens, American lawyer and politician, 24th Governor of California
• 1863 - Charles Pathé, French record producer, co-founded Pathé Records
• 1864 - Yun Chi-ho, Korean activist and politician
• 1867 - Phan Bội Châu, Vietnamese activist
• 1869 - Mathieu Cordang, Dutch cyclist
• 1872 - Norman Angell, English journalist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1873 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer
• 1874 - Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologian and academic
• 1883 - Maurice Utrillo, French painter
• 1885 - Bazoline Estelle Usher, African-American educator
• 1887 - Arthur Percival, English general
• 1888 - Marius Canard, French orientalist and historian
• 1890 - Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Greece
• 1890 - Percy Hodge, English runner
• 1891 - Henry Miller, American author and painter
• 1892 - Don Barclay, American actor and illustrator
• 1893 - Mao Zedong, Chinese politician, Chairman of the Communist Party of China
• 1894 - Jean Toomer, American author and poet
• 1900 - Evelyn Bark, leading member of the British Red Cross, first female recipient of the CMG
• 1901 - Elmar Muuk, Estonian linguist and author
• 1902 - Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter and sculptor
• 1903 - Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor
• 1904 - Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author
• 1905 - William Loeb III, American publisher
• 1907 - Albert Gore, Sr., American lawyer and politician
• 1908 - Ralph Hill, American runner
• 1909 - Matt Gordy, American pole vaulter
• 1910 - Imperio Argentina, Argentine-Spanish actress and singer
• 1910 - Marguerite Churchill, American actress
• 1912 - Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila
• 1913 - Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist
• 1914 - Richard Widmark, American actor
• 1915 - Rolf Botvid, Swedish actor and screenwriter
• 1918 - Olga Lopes-Seale, Guyanese-Barbadian singer and radio host
• 1918 - Georgios Rallis, Greek lieutenant and politician, 173rd Prime Minister of Greece
• 1921 - Steve Allen, American actor, singer, talk show host, and screenwriter
• 1921 - John Severin, American illustrator
• 1922 - Richard Mayes, English actor
• 1923 - Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor
• 1924 - Frank Broyles, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1926 - Earle Brown, American composer
• 1927 - Denis Gifford, English journalist and historian
• 1927 - Alan King, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1927 - Stu Miller, American baseball player
• 1927 - Denis Quilley, English actor
• 1929 - Kathleen Crowley, American actress
• 1929 - Régine Zylberberg, Belgian-French singer and actress
• 1930 - Jean Ferrat, French singer-songwriter and poet
• 1930 - Harry Gamble, American football player, coach, and manager
• 1930 - Donald Moffat, English-American actor
• 1933 - Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer and voice actor
• 1935 - Abdul "Duke" Fakir, American singer
• 1935 - Rohan Kanhai, Guyanese cricketer
• 1935 - Norm Ullman, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1936 - Peep Jänes, Estonian architect
• 1936 - Trevor Taylor, English race car driver
• 1937 - John Horton Conway, English mathematician, known for Conway's Game of Life
• 1938 - Bahram Beyzai, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1938 - Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, scholar, and author
• 1938 - Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1938 - Mirko Kovač, Yugoslav-Croatian author, playwright, and screenwriter
• 1939 - Fred Schepisi, Australian director and screenwriter
• 1939 - Phil Spector, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1940 - Edward C. Prescott, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1940 - Ray Sadecki, American baseball player
• 1941 - Daniel Schmid, Swiss actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1942 - Vinicio Cerezo, Guatemalan politician, 28th President of Guatemala
• 1942 - Catherine Coulter, American author
• 1942 - Gray Davis, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of California
• 1944 - William Ayers, American academic and activist
• 1945 - John Walsh, American television host, producer, and activist, created America's Most Wanted
• 1946 - Alan Frumin, American lawyer and politician
• 1946 - Tiit Rosenberg, Estonian historian and academic
• 1947 - James T. Conway, American general
• 1947 - Jean Echenoz, French author
• 1947 - Carlton Fisk, American baseball player
• 1947 - Josef Janíček, Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboard player
• 1947 - Richard Levis McCormick, American historian and academic
• 1948 - Candy Crowley, American journalist
• 1949 - José Ramos-Horta, East Timorese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1950 - Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Pakistani businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Pakistan
• 1950 - Mario Mendoza, Mexican baseball player and manager
• 1953 - Leonel Fernández, Dominican lawyer and politician, 51st President of the Dominican Republic
• 1953 - Makis Katsavakis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1953 - Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Swedish-Estonian journalist and politician, 4th President of Estonia
• 1953 - Henning Schmitz, German drummer
• 1954 - Peter Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist
• 1954 - Ozzie Smith, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1955 - Evan Bayh, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Indiana
• 1956 - David Sedaris, American comedian, author, and radio host
• 1957 - Dermot Murnaghan, English-Northern Irish journalist and game show host
• 1958 - Adrian Newey, English aerodynamicist and engineer
• 1959 - Kōji Morimoto, Japanese animator and director
• 1959 - Hans Nielsen, Danish motorcycle racer
• 1959 - Wang Lijun, Chinese police officer and politician
• 1960 - Keith Martin Ball, American mathematician and academic
• 1960 - Ruud Kaiser, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1960 - Jim Toomey, American cartoonist
• 1960 - Cem Uzan, Turkish businessman and politician
• 1961 - Andrew Lock, Australian mountaineer
• 1961 - John Lynch, Northern Irish actor
• 1962 - Mark Starr, English wrestler
• 1963 - Craig Teitzel, Australian rugby league player
• 1963 - Lars Ulrich, Danish-American drummer, songwriter, and producer
• 1964 - Elizabeth Kostova, American author
• 1966 - Jay Farrar, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1966 - Tim Legler, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1966 - Jay Yuenger, American guitarist and producer
• 1968 - Matt Zoller Seitz, American film critic and author
• 1969 - Isaac Viciosa, Spanish runner
• 1970 - James Mercer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1971 - Jared Leto, American actor and musician
• 1971 - Mika Nurmela, Finnish footballer
• 1971 - Tatiana Sorokko, Russian-American model and journalist
• 1972 - Esteban Fuertes, Argentinian footballer
• 1972 - Robert Muchamore, English author
• 1973 - Paulo Frederico Benevenute, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 - Gianluca Faliva, Italian rugby player
• 1973 - Nobuhiko Matsunaka, Japanese baseball player
• 1973 - Steve Prescott, English rugby player
• 1974 - Joshua John Miller, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1975 - Chris Calaguio, Filipino basketball player
• 1975 - Marcelo Ríos, Chilean tennis player
• 1975 - María Vasco, Spanish race walker
• 1976 - Simon Goodwin, Australian footballer and coach
• 1977 - Fatih Akyel, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1977 - Adrienn Hegedűs, Hungarian tennis player
• 1978 - Karel Rüütli, Estonian lawyer and politician
• 1978 - Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player
• 1979 - Fabián Carini, Uruguayan footballer
• 1979 - Chris Daughtry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 - Dimitry Vassiliev, Russian ski jumper
• 1979 - Craig Wing, Australian rugby player
• 1980 - Todd Dunivant, American soccer player
• 1980 - Ceylan Ertem, Turkish singer
• 1981 - Pablo Canavosio, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
• 1981 - Nikolai Nikolaeff, Australian actor
• 1982 - Kenneth Darby, American football player
• 1982 - Noel Hunt, Irish footballer
• 1982 - Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian skier
• 1983 - Yu Takahashi, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1983 - Alexander Wang, American fashion designer
• 1984 - Ahmed Barusso, Ghanaian footballer
• 1984 - Leonardo Ghiraldini, Italian rugby player
• 1984 - Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker
• 1985 - Beth Behrs, American actress
• 1986 - Kit Harington, English actor
• 1986 - Hugo Lloris, French footballer
• 1986 - Selen Soyder, Turkish actress and beauty queen
• 1989 - Yohan Blake, Jamaican sprinter
• 1990 - Jon Bellion, American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer
• 1990 - Andy Biersack, American singer-songwriter
• 1990 - Denis Cheryshev, Russian footballer
• 1990 - Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
• 1991 - Eden Sher, American actress
• 1992 - Cecilia Costa Melgar, Chilean tennis player
• 1992 - Jade Thirlwall, English singer
• 1994 - Souleymane Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer

  Deaths

• 268 - Dionysius, pope of the Catholic Church
• 418 - Zosimus, pope of the Catholic Church
• 831 - Euthymius of Sardis, Byzantine bishop and saint
• 865 - Zheng, empress of the Tang Dynasty
• 893 - Masrur al-Balkhi, Abbasid general
• 1006 - Gao Qiong, Chinese general
• 1191 - Reginald Fitz Jocelin, archbishop-elect of Canterbury
• 1302 - Valdemar, king of Sweden
• 1331 - Philip I, Prince of Taranto, titular Latin Emperor
• 1350 - Jean de Marigny, French archbishop
• 1352 - John, 3rd Earl of Kent, English politician
• 1360 - Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, English commander
• 1413 - Michele Steno, doge of Venice
• 1441 - Niccolò III d'Este, marquess of Ferrara
• 1458 - Arthur III, duke of Brittany
• 1476 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza, duke of Milan
• 1530 - Babur, Mongolian emperor
• 1574 - Charles de Lorraine, French cardinal
• 1646 - Henri de Bourbon, prince of Condé
• 1731 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French author
• 1771 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher and activist
• 1780 - John Fothergill, English physician and botanist
• 1784 - Seth Warner, American colonel
• 1786 - Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic
• 1863 - Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone
• 1869 - Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist
• 1890 - Heinrich Schliemann, German-Italian archaeologist and author
• 1909 - Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator
• 1923 - Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet, and politician
• 1925 - Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial
• 1929 - Albert Giraud, Belgian poet
• 1931 - Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification
• 1933 - Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician
• 1933 - Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator
• 1959 - Jack Tresadern, English footballer and manager
• 1960 - Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher
• 1963 - Gorgeous George, American wrestler
• 1966 - Ina Boudier-Bakker, Dutch author
• 1966 - Herbert Otto Gille, German general
• 1966 - Guillermo Stábile, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1968 - Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist
• 1970 - Lillian Board, South African-English runner
• 1972 - Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States
• 1973 - Harold B. Lee, American religious leader, 11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• 1974 - Farid al-Atrash, Syrian-Egyptian singer-songwriter, oud player, and actor
• 1974 - Jack Benny, American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, and violinist
• 1974 - Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, Scottish admiral
• 1977 - Howard Hawks, American director and screenwriter
• 1980 - Tony Smith, American sculptor and educator
• 1981 - Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar
• 1981 - Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey
• 1981 - Savitri, Indian actress, playback singer, dancer, director and producer
• 1986 - Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress
• 1987 - Dorothy Bliss, American invertebrate zoologist, curator at the American Museum of Natural History
• 1988 - Glenn McCarthy, American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel
• 1988 - Pablo Sorozábal, German-Spanish composer and conductor
• 1989 - Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1990 - Gene Callahan, American art director and production designer
• 1994 - Sylva Koscina, Italian actress
• 1996 - JonBenét Ramsey, American child beauty queen and prominent unsolved murder victim
• 1997 - Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic
• 1997 - Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek economist and philosopher
• 1998 - Ram Swarup, Indian writer on Hindu philosophy and religion
• 1999 - Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1999 - Shankar Dayal Sharma, Indian academic and politician, 9th President of India
• 2000 - Jason Robards, American actor
• 2001 - Nigel Hawthorne, English actor
• 2002 - Herb Ritts, American photographer and director
• 2002 - Armand Zildjian, American businessman, founded the Avedis Zildjian Company
• 2003 - Virginia Coffey, American civil rights activist
• 2004 - Troy Broadbridge, Australian footballer
• 2004 - Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African surgeon and academic
• 2004 - Sigurd Køhn, Norwegian saxophonist and composer
• 2004 - Angus Ogilvy, English businessman
• 2004 - Mieszko Talarczyk, Polish-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 2004 - Reggie White, American football player and wrestler
• 2005 - Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American soprano
• 2005 - Ted Ditchburn, English footballer and manager
• 2005 - Kerry Packer, Australian publisher and businessman
• 2005 - Viacheslav Platonov, Russian volleyball player and coach
• 2005 - Vincent Schiavelli, American actor
• 2005 - Erich Topp, German commander
• 2006 - Gerald Ford, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 38th President of the United States
• 2006 - Ivar Formo, Norwegian skier and engineer
• 2006 - Munir Niazi, Indian-Pakistani poet
• 2009 - Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer
• 2010 - Salvador Jorge Blanco, 48th President of the Dominican Republic
• 2010 - Edward Bhengu, South African activist
• 2010 - Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 2011 - Houston Antwine, American football player
• 2011 - Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., Mexican-American actor and producer
• 2011 - Sarekoppa Bangarappa, Indian politician, 15th Chief Minister of Karnataka
• 2011 - Joe Bodolai, American screenwriter and producer
• 2011 - James Rizzi, American painter and illustrator
• 2012 - Gerry Anderson, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 2012 - Gerald McDermott, American author and illustrator
• 2012 - Ibrahim Tannous, Lebanese general
• 2013 - Paul Blair, American baseball player and coach
• 2013 - Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-American actress and singer
• 2014 - Stanisław Barańczak, Polish-American poet, critic, and scholar
• 2014 - James B. Edwards, American dentist, soldier, and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Energy
• 2014 - Leo Tindemans, Belgian politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium
• 2015 - Sidney Mintz, American anthropologist and academic
• 2015 - Jim O'Toole, American baseball player
• 2016 - Ricky Harris, American comedian, actor
• 2016 - George S. Irving, American actor, singer and dancer
• 2017 - Irv Weinstein, American broadcaster and television news anchor

  Holidays and observances

• Boxing Day, except when December 26 is a Sunday. If it is a Sunday, Boxing Day is transferred to December 27 by Royal Proclamation., and its related observances:
• *Day of Good Will
• *Family Day
• *Thanksgiving
• Christian feast day:
• *Abadiu of Antinoe
• *Earliest day on which Feast of the Holy Family can fall, celebrated on Sunday after Christmas or 30 if Christmas falls on a Sunday.
• *James the Just
• *Stephen
• *Synaxis of the Theotokos
• *December 26
• Independence and Unity Day
• Mauro Hamza Day
• Mummer's Day
• St. Stephen's Day, and its related observances:
• *Father's Day
• The first day of Kwanzaa, celebrated until January 1
• The first day of Junkanoo street parade, the second day is on the New Year's Day
• The second day of the Twelve Days of Christmas
• *Second day of Christmas
• Wren Day