On this day: December 26

POSTED: 05:00 PM PST Dec 24, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Dec 25, 2012 

Congress memorializes George Washington, Babe Ruth's contract is sold to the Yankees, Kwanzaa is celebrated for the first time, and a killer tsunami rolls across the Indian Ocean, all on this day.

OTD December 26 - Dakota mass hanging
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Library of Congress

1862: After trials and sentencing following the Dakota War of 1862, 38 Dakota are hanged in Mankato, Minn., in the largest one-day execution in American history.

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