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"A Rugrats Kwanzaa" is a television special from the American animated series Rugrats, first broadcast on December 11, 2001. It was one of the first mainstream television shows to feature the holiday Kwanzaa. In the episode, the toddler Susie Carmichael and her friends – Tommy Pickles, Chuckie and Kimi Finster, and Phil and Lil DeVille – learn about the holiday during a visit from her great-aunt. Anthony Bell directed the episode from a script by Lisa D. Hall, Jill Gorey, and Barbara Herndon. "A Rugrats Kwanzaa" was praised by critics for its representation of the holiday and the voice acting; there was a mixed response to its commercialism. Cree Summer, who voices Susie, earned a nomination for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Performance by a Youth at the 34th NAACP Image Awards for her role in the episode. A picture book entitled The Rugrats' First Kwanzaa was adapted from the script. (Full article...)

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A court in Saudi Arabia sentences five people to death for the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi (pictured).
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United States president Donald Trump is impeached by the House of Representatives on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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December 26: Boxing Day in the Commonwealth; Kwanzaa begins (African diaspora in the Americas)

Babe Ruth

1776 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington led a column of the Continental Army across the Delaware River to launch a surprise attack against Hessian forces at the Battle of Trenton.
1825 – Imperial Russian Army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Konstantin removed himself from the line of succession.
1919 – American baseball player Babe Ruth (pictured) was sold by the Boston Red Sox to their rivals, the New York Yankees, beginning the 84-year-long "Curse of the Bambino".
1996 – The Federation of Korean Trade Unions called on its 1.2 million members to refuse to work, beginning the largest organized strike in South Korea's history.

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James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He was involved in the movement to abolish slavery and used his poetry to express his anti-slavery views. He was the first editor of what was to become The Atlantic and taught at Harvard University for twenty years. In 1877, he was appointed minister (ambassador) to the court of Spain and, three years later, accepted a similar role as minister to England.

This picture is an engraved portrait of Lowell, produced in 1894 by John Angel James Wilcox, from an original drawing made in 1855 by Samuel Worcester Rowse. The engraving is held by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Engraving credit: John A. J. Wilcox, after Samuel W. Rowse; restored by Adam Cuerden

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