N.F.L. Makes Rare Decision Not to Brave the Snow
By Judy Battista
The game, originally scheduled for Sunday night, will be played Tuesday night in Philadelphia.
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On this day
December 26, 2010
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Bounty Hunter Takes His Skills to the Met Stage
By David Belcher
The tenor Carl Tanner, a former bounty hunter in real life, makes his Met debut as a bounty hunter in “La Fanciulla del West.”
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Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away
By Anthony Tommasini
The New York String Orchestra’s annual Christmas Eve concert featured young musicians and an even younger Mendelssohn.
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Troubles That Ring True for Women of a Certain Age
By Ginia Bellafante
“Men of a Certain Age” is gaining an audience, especially among women, with a more realistic view of middle-age angst.
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Scholars Say Chronicler of Black Life Passed for White
By Felicia R. Lee
In the introduction to a new Norton edition of Jean Toomer’s “Cane,” Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Rudolph P. Byrd contend that Toomer was “a Negro who decided to pass for white.”
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Music on My Birthday
Billboard 200
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 22, 2010, covering December 26, 2010.
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The Gift
Susan Boyle
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- 1
- Weeks
- 5
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Speak Now
Taylor Swift
- Last week
- 2
- Peak
- 1
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- 7
- 3
Glee: The Music; The Christmas Album
Soundtrack
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- 4
- Peak
- 3
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- 4
- 4
No Mercy
T.I.
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- 4
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- 1
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O Holy Night (EP)
Jackie Evancho
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- 3
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- 2
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- 4
Notable Deaths
2010Salvador Jorge Blanco, 48th President of the Dominican Republic (born 1926)[†]
José Salvador Omar Jorge Blanco was a Dominican politician, lawyer and writer who served as the 48th president of the Dominican Republic from 1982 to 1986. He was a Senator running for the PRD party. He started his political career as a Committee Secretary for the Unión Cívica de Santiago in 1963 and joined the PRD in 1964.
2010Edward Bhengu, South African activist (born 1934)[†]
Edward "Sonnyboy" Bhengu was a South African activist and founding member of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania.
2010Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1956)[†]
Mary Christine Brockert, known professionally as Teena Marie, was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter, and producer. She was known by her childhood nickname Tina before taking the stage name Teena Marie and later acquired the nickname Lady T, given to her by her collaborator and friend Rick James.
Historical Context for December 26, 2010
In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]