December 26 in history: • 1709 – The opera Agrippina, described as George Frideric Handel's first masterpiece, premiered in Venice. → go there • 1800 – Philip Gidley King, Governor of New South Wales, ordered the formation of the Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse, described as the first full-time military unit raised in Australia. → go there • 1825 – Imperial Russian Army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Konstantin removed himself from the line of succession. → go there • 1919 – American baseball player Babe Ruth (pictured) was sold by the Boston Red Sox to their rivals, the New York Yankees, beginning the 84-year-long "Curse of the Bambino". → go there • 2015 – A violent tornado moved through several suburbs of Dallas, United States, killing ten and injuring almost 500 others. → go there Died 1780: John Fothergill Wiki link Born 1885: Bazoline Estelle Usher Wiki link Born 1950: Raja Pervaiz Ashraf Wiki link Died 2000: Gust Zarnas Wiki link Pictured: Babe Ruth.