Due Date December 26

As you’ve probably heard, little Holt’s due date is December 26. Now, we all know about the great thing that happened on December 25, but what about the day after? I thought it would be interesting to look up some of the big occurrences of our due date. Here’s what I found:

Interesting things that happened on December 26

• 1776 - The British suffered a major defeat in the Battle of Trenton during the Revolutionary War.
• 1799 - George Washington was eulogized by Col. Henry Lee as “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
• 1865 - James H. Nason of Franklin, Mass., received a patent for a coffee percolator.
• 1908 - Jack Johhnson became the first black heavyweight boxing champion when he knocked out Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.
• 1917 - The U.S. government took over operation of the nation’s railroads.
• 1941 - Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.
• 1944 - Tennessee Williams’ play “The Glass Menagerie” premiered at the Civic Theatre in Chicago.
• 1947 - Heavy snow blanketed the Northeast, burying New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours; the severe weather was blamed for some 80 deaths.
• 1972 - Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, died in Kansas City, Mo., at age 88.
• 1999 - Alfonso Portillo, a populist lawyer, scored a resounding victory in Guatemala’s first peacetime presidential elections in nearly 40 years.
• 2004 - Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts broke Dan Marino’s single-season touchdown pass record when he threw his 48th and 49th of the season in a victory over San Diego.
• 2004 - A tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean left more than 216,000 people dead or missing, mostly in southern Asia.
• 2006 - Gerald R. Ford, the 38th president of the United States, died in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at age 93.