MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2011

Today is Monday, December 26, the 360th day of 2011. There are five days left in the year.

1831 ― Vincenzo Bellini's opera ``Norma" premieres in Milan

1877 ― Socialist Labor Party of North America holds first national convention

1902 ― Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (five) and Christy Williams (42)

1926 ― Prince-regent Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan

1933 ― U.S. forswears armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere

1935 ― Stalin views Dmitri Shostakovich's opera ``Lady Macbeth"

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

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

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

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