Historical Events for 26th December 2023

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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.

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[mike carey]

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.