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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_26" title="December 26">December 26</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day" title="Boxing Day">Boxing Day</a></b> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth</a>; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa" title="Kwanzaa">Kwanzaa</a></b> begins (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_diaspora_in_the_Americas" title="African diaspora in the Americas">African diaspora in the Americas</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1709" title="1709">1709</a> – The opera <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippina_(opera)" title="Agrippina (opera)">Agrippina</a></b></i> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel" title="George Frideric Handel">George Frideric Handel</a> premiered in Venice.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776" title="1776">1776</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> led a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> column <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_crossing_of_the_Delaware_River" title="George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River">across the Delaware River</a></b> to launch a surprise attack against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian_(soldier)" title="Hessian (soldier)">Hessian</a> forces at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Trenton" title="Battle of Trenton">Battle of Trenton</a></b> <i>(painting shown)</i>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1898" title="1898">1898</a> – At the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Academy_of_Sciences" title="French Academy of Sciences">French Academy of Sciences</a>, physicists <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Curie" title="Pierre Curie">Pierre</a></b> and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie" title="Marie Curie">Marie Curie</a></b> announced the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_chemical_element_discoveries" title="Timeline of chemical element discoveries">discovery of a new element</a>, naming it <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium" title="Radium">radium</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919" title="1919">1919</a> – American baseball player <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth" title="Babe Ruth">Babe Ruth</a></b> was sold by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> to their rivals, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a>, beginning the 84-year-long "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Bambino" title="Curse of the Bambino">Curse of the Bambino</a>".</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943" title="1943">1943</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a>: The German battleship <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Scharnhorst" title="German battleship Scharnhorst">Scharnhorst</a></i> was sunk at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_North_Cape" title="Battle of the North Cape">Battle of the North Cape</a></b> during an attempt to attack <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_convoys_of_World_War_II" title="Arctic convoys of World War II">Arctic convoys</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masrur_al-Balkhi" title="Masrur al-Balkhi">Masrur al-Balkhi</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 893); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Fitz_Jocelin" title="Reginald Fitz Jocelin">Reginald Fitz Jocelin</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1191); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazoline_Estelle_Usher" title="Bazoline Estelle Usher">Bazoline Estelle Usher</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1885)</p>
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