Today is Friday, December 26, the 361st day of 2008. There are five days left in the year.
1831 _ Vincenzo Bellini's opera ``Norma" premieres in Milan
1932 _ Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China
1933 _ U.S. forswears armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere
1934 _ Yomiuri Giants, Japan's first professional baseball team forms
1941 _ Winston Churchill becomes first British P.M. to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that the Axis would ``stop at nothing"
1944 _ Budapest surrounded by soviet army
1944 _ Tennessee Williams' play ``Glass Menagerie" premieres in Chicago
1963 _ Beatles release ``I Want To Hold Your Hand"/ ``I Saw Her Standing There"
1978 _ India's former P.M., Indira Gandhi, released from jail
1982 _ TIME's Man of the Year is a computer