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December 26

4 sourced moments from December 26 in history: Charles Babbage, father of the computer, was born (1791); The Decembrist revolt of 1825 was crushed within a day; Marie Curie discovered radium in 1898 without a pure sample, plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on December 26

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2004 Earth & Climate · Natural Disasters

A magnitude 9.1 quake off Sumatra triggered the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

On Boxing Day 2004, a megathrust earthquake ruptured some 1,300 kilometres of seafloor and sent waves across an entire ocean.

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1898 Science · Chemistry

Marie Curie discovered radium in 1898 without a pure sample

The Curies announced radium on 26 December 1898 from a barium-laden sample and one faint spectral line; a pure decigram took four more years.

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1825 History · Modern

The Decembrist revolt of 1825 was crushed within a day

About 3,000 soldiers defied Tsar Nicholas I in St Petersburg's Senate Square, faced three times as many loyal troops, and were scattered by cannon at dusk.

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1791 Technology · Computing & AI

Charles Babbage, father of the computer, was born

Born on this day in 1791, Babbage designed engines that anticipated the programmable computer by more than a century.

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