Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
- The Republic of China is established.
- The British Board of Censors is established.
- German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.
- The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party.
- Britain’s Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS.
- The Cristero War begins in Mexico.
- Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian).
- Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin’s secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
- The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
- The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington’s birth.
- Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison.
- Nazi Germany passes the “Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring”.
- Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.
- Sydney, Australia, swelters in 45 ˚C (113 ˚F) heat, a record for the city.
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- The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
- World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops massacre 30 SS prisoners at Chenogne.
- World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.
- The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
- The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
- The British railway network is nationalized to form British Railways.
- The Constitution of Italy comes into force.
- United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
- Tokelau becomes part of New Zealand.
- Standard practice uses this day as the origin of the age scale Before Present
- NBC makes the first coast-to-coast NTSC color broadcast when it telecast the Tournament of Roses Parade, with public demonstrations given across the United States on prototype color receivers.
- Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.
- A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people.
- George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Elizabeth II.
- An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks during Operation Harvest; two IRA volunteers killed.
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