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December 26
1871. Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate on their first piece, the now lost opera Thespis. It fares only moderately well, and they won't collaborate again until four years later.
1919. Babe Ruth is sold by Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee to the New York Yankees. After winning the WS 1918, they won't finish above .500 until 1934. Ironically, given the future long-running animosity between the teams, this deal helped seal an alliance of the Yankees and Red Sox, which also included the White Sox, against the American League Commissioner Ban Johnson and the so-called "Loyal Five", who basically did Johnson's bidding all the time (unlike the Yanks, WS and RS).
1933. FM radio is patented.
1944. Patton's Third Army penetrates the German forces encircling Bastogne.
1991. The Supreme Soviet meets for the last time and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
1996. Six year old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in her family home basement.
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