Volume 13 , Issue 52

On This Day In History (December 26)

On this day in history, 26 December 1941, Winston churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint meeting of the United States Congress. READ MORE

Winston Churchill was the first wartime Prime Minister of Great Britain to ever address the Congress of the US when he told the body that anti-Axis forces probably would be able to undertake a world wide offensive in 1943.

On 26 December 1893, Mao Tse-tung, the Chinese statesman who led the communist revolution in China and became its first communist leader, was born. Following his death on Sept. 9, 1976, his obituary appeared in The Times. Go to obituary.

On This Date: 26 December . . .

• 1799 -George Washington was eulogized by Col. Henry Lee as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
• 1865 - James H. Nason of Franklin, Mass., received a patent for a coffee percolator. 1893 Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong was born in Hunan province.
• 1908 - Jack Johhnson became the first black heavyweight boxing champion when he knocked out Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.
• 1917 - The U.S. government took over operation of the nation's railroads.
• 1944 - Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie" premiered at the Civic Theatre in Chicago.
• 1947 - Heavy snow blanketed the Northeast, burying New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours; the severe weather was blamed for some 80 deaths.

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