SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2009

Today is Saturday, December 26, the 360th day of 2009. There are five days left in the year.

1620 _ Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, Mass.

1854 _ Wood-pulp paper first exhibited, Buffalo

1865 _ James H. Mason (Massachusetts) patents first coffee percolator

1931 _ George/Ira Gershwin's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play ``Of Thee I Sing" premieres on Broadway

1934 _ Yomiuri Giants, Japan's first professional baseball team forms

1944 _ Tennessee Williams' play ``Glass Menagerie" premieres in Chicago

1963 _ Beatles release ``I Want To Hold Your Hand"/``I Saw Her Standing There"

1968 _ Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Boston as opener for Vanilla Fudge

1973 _ ``The Exorcist", starring Linda Blair and rated X, premieres

1982 _ TIME's Man of the Year is a computer