I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
— Fran Lebowitz
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Today is Tuesday, December 26th. It is Boxing Day (in Commonwealth countries), National Candy Cane Day, and National Thank You Note Day.
On This Day
In 1776, the Continental Army attacked and successfully defeated a garrison of Hessian forces at the Battle of Trenton.
In 1799, Henry Lee III’s eulogy to George Washington in Congress declared him to be “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
In 1861, Confederate diplomatic envoys James Murray Mason and John Slidell were freed by the U.S. government, heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.
In 1862, four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board the USS Red Rover became the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
In 1919, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox was sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
In 1944, George S. Patton’s Third Army broke the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
In 1966, “Maulana Karenga” (born Ronald McKinley Everett), the chairman of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach, celebrated the first “Kwanzaa,” a holiday he invented that melded black nationalism with “early Chinese and Cuban socialism.”
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