December 26

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1776	American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton.	Point of Recognition	Day of Defeat	Day of Defeat
2.	1792	The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris.	The Anniversary	The Death of the King	Your Majesty
3.	1861	American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James M. Mason and John Slidell are freed by theUnited States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and Britain.	Lesley Gore	Brink of Disaster	One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found
4.	1862	Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.	Haymarket Riot	Goodnight Nurse	Endless Bummer
5.	1898	Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.	The Microphones	The Glow Pt. 2	The Glow Pt. 2
6.	1919	Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.	Nancy Sinatra	So Long, Babe	Boots
7.	1933	FM radio is patented.	Stars	My Radio (FM Mix)	Nightsongs
8.	1966	The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.	Depeche Mode	Black Celebration	Black Celebration
9.	1982	Time Magazine's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.	Sufjan Stevens	Dear Mr. Supercomputer	The Avalanche

(Historical facts about December 26 are from Wikipedia.)