CoM Moderators Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 1925 - 1st East-West Shrine Bowl game of college football 'all-stars' played before 25,000 fans at Ewing Park, San Francisco. Proceeds continue to benefit Shriners Hospitals for Children. 1940 - JA Fields/J Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen," premieres in NYC 1954 - "The Shadow" airs for last time on radio 1968 - Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors and 2 game misconducts in a game against NY Rangers in NY's Madison Square Garden 1968 - Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Denver as opener for Vanilla Fudge 1972 - Ballon d'Or: Bayern Munich defender Franz Beckenbauer wins award for best European football player ahead of tied fellow German duo of Gerd Müller and Günter Netzer 1973 - Horror film "The Exorcist" based on book and screenplay by William Peter Blatty, starring Linda Blair, rated X, premieres - 1st horror film to be nominated for Best Picture 1975 - Crowd of 85,661 attend the 1st day of the Australia vs West Indies MCG cricket test 1991 - Gun of Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, sells for $220,000 at auction 2003 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-é Bam. More Historical Events » Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike carey Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 And in 2004 the Boxing Day tsunami took the lives of almost a quarter of a million people, mainly in Aceh province in Indonesia but also many in Thailand, Sri Lanka and India, but others as far away as Somalia. + Charlie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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