Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage First Inter-Club Football Match
First Inter-Club Football Match

26th of December 2025

26th of December 2025 is the 360th day of the year.
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This day in history:

1860: First Inter-Club Football Match - ...more
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. - GK Chesterton.

Born today:

Thomas Gray - 1716, George Romney - 1734, Mary Somerville - 1780, Charles Babbage - 1791, Hugh Conway - 1847, Thomas Lewis - 1881, Liz Lochhead - 1947, Mark Cueto - 1979.

Died today:

John Wilkes - 1797, Mary Robinson - 1800, Joseph Paton - 1901, Ivor Gurney - 1937, Lennox Berkeley - 1989, Nigel Hawthorne - 2001.

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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. - Douglas Adams
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