December 26, 1976The Nepal Revolutionary Communist Coordination Committee establishes the Nepal Communist Party as an underground party. It is influenced by the Indian Communist Party.

December 27, 1949Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants sovereignty to Indonesia after more than 300 years of Dutch rule. The Netherlands retains control of Irian Jaya, inhabited by Melanesians, until 1963.

December 28, 1973Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes Gulag Ar