Dec 26 1893
Dictator Mao Tse-tung born in Hunan province.
Dec 26 1980
Richard Chase, the "Vampire of Sacramento" who drank the blood of two of his six victims, commits suicide on death row by overdosing on hoarded medication.
Dec 26 1985
"Gorillas in the Mist" author Dian Fossey killed with machete in Africa.
Dec 26 1996
Six-year-old beauty queen, JonBenet Ramsey, was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, CO.
Dec 26 2004
An Indian Ocean 9.15 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra unleashes a series of powerful tsunamis. Just under 230,000 people are either killed or missing. The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake affects a huge geographical area from Indonesia to Bangladesh to Somalia even triggering earthquakes in Alaska.
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