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Today is Saturday, Dec. 26, the 360th day of 2015. There are five days left in the year. The seven-day African-American holiday Kwanzaa begins today. This is Boxing Day.

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Today's Highlight in History:


On Dec. 26, 1799, former President George Washington was eulogized by Col. Henry Lee as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."

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In 1865, James H. Nason of Franklin, Massachusetts, received a patent for "an improved coffee percolator."

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In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first African-American boxer to win the world heavyweight championship as he defeated Canadian Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia.

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In 1944, during the World War II Battle of the Bulge, the embattled U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne, Belgium, was relieved by units of the 4th Armored Division. Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie" was first performed at the Civic Theatre in Chicago.

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In 1966, Kwanzaa was first celebrated

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In 1972, the 33rd president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, died in Kansas City, Missouri, at age 88.

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In 1975, the Soviet Union inaugurated the world's first supersonic transport service with a flight of its Tupolev-144 airliner from Moscow to Alma-Ata (AHL'-muh AH'-tah).

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In 1980, Iranian television footage was broadcast in the United States, showing a dozen of the American hostages sending messages to their families.

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In 1985, Ford Motor Company began selling its Taurus and Sable sedans and station wagons.

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In 1990, Nancy Cruzan, the young woman in an irreversible vegetative state whose case led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the right to die, died at a Missouri hospital.

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In 2000, Michael McDermott, an employee at an Internet firm in Wakefield, Massachusetts, shot and killed seven co-workers. (McDermott was later convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.) Veteran stage and screen actor Jason Robards died in Bridgeport, Connecticut, at age 78.