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Today in History December 27

1932 Radio City Music Hall opens.

1944 General George S. Patton's Third Army, spearheaded by the 4th Armored Division, relieves the surrounded city of Bastogne in Belgium.

1968 The United States agrees to sell F-4 Phantom jets to Israel.

1983 President Reagan takes all responsibility for the lack of security in Beirut that allowed a terrorist on a suicide mission to kill 241 Marines.

2001 China receives permanent normal trade relations with the US.

2004 Radiation reaches Earth from the brightest extrasolar event ever witnessed, an explosion of magnetar SGR 1806-20.


Born on December 27

1822 Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist.


JOTD

A man goes to a $10 hooker and contracts crabs.
When he goes back to complain, the hooker laughs and says, "What do you expect for $10 -- lobster?"