歷史回顧：強(qiáng)烈地震海嘯生 兩屆總統(tǒng)齊辭世(視頻)

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 and Thailand. The tsunami was triggered by the world’s most powerful earthquake in 40 years beneath the Indian Ocean.

1996. Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found beaten and?strangled?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 the slaying remains unsolved.

1941. In Washington, Winston Churchill becomes the first British Prime?Minister to address a joint meeting 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, instead of the other way around, 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.