On this day... December 26:

On this day...

December 26: Boxing Day in Commonwealth countries; St. Stephen's Day (Western Christianity); Kwanzaa begins in Canada and the United States 1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: French troops under Napoleon engaged Russian forces in both the Battles of Pultusk and Golymin. 1825 – Imperial Russian Army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Constantine removed himself from the line of succession. 1900 – A relief crew arrived at the lighthouse (pictured) on theFlannan Isles of Scotland and discovered that the previous crew had disappeared without a trace. 1968 – The Communist Party of the Philippines, which is fighting an insurgency, was established by Jose Maria Sison. 1996 – The Federation of Korean Trade Unions called upon its1.2 million members to walk off the job, beginning the largest organized strike in the nation's history,