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December 26th, 2004
A tsunami kills more than 200,000 people, most of them in Southern Asia and leaves tens of thousands more missing. Among the countries’ hardest hit by the deadly waves, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India andThailand. The tsunami [-----1-----] the world’s most powerful earthquake in 40 years beneath the Indian Ocean.

1996
Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found [-----2-----] in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. Ten years later, John Mark Karr is arrested in Thailand and called a suspect in JonBenét’s Murder. But DNA evidence later clears Karr and [-----3-----].

1941
In Washington, Winston Churchill becomes the first British Prime
Minister to [-----4-----] of the U.S. Congress. Churchill, whose mother was American, visited Capitol Hill just weeks after the U.S. entered World War II.

“If my father had been an American and my mother British, [-----5-----], I might have gotten here on my own.”

1972
Harry S. Truman, a 33rd President of the United States, dies at age 88.

2006
Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States, dies at age 93.

And 1944
The first public performance of Tennessee Williams’s play, The Glass Menagerie, takes place in Chicago.

Today in History, December 26th, Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.