GOOD MORNING - TODAY IS FRIDAY, December 26, the 360th day of 2014 with 05 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 7:12 and sunset is @ 4:16. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are stars are Jupiter, Mercury & Saturn. The evening stars are Mars, Neptune, Uranus & Venus. ON THIS DAY IN: 1492 - Christopher Columbus established the first Spanish settlement in the Americas on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti. 1776 - The British suffered a major defeat in the Battle of Trenton during the Revolutionary War. 1865 - James H. Nason of Franklin, Massachusetts, received a patent for a coffee percolator. 1898 - Scientists Pierre Curie and Marie Curie announced their discovery of the radioactive element radium. 1917 - During World War I, the U.S. government took over operation of the nations railroads. 1941 - Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, just three weeks after the U.S. entered World War II. 1966 - The first Kwanzaa celebration was organized in Los Angeles, California, by Dr. Maulana Karenga, chairman of Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach. Kwanzaa is a non-religious African-American holiday that celebrates family, community, and culture for seven days. 1979 - The Soviet Union began a massive airlift of men into Kabul, Afghanistan, in an effort to reinstate Communist rule in the nation. 1995 - Israel turned dozens of West Bank villages over to the Palestinian Authority in a smooth transfer of power. 2004 - A tsunami triggered by the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean, left more than 275,000 people dead or missing, while inundating coastal communities across South and Southeast Asia.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 11:56:35 +0000
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