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Boxing Day

1933: FM radio is patented.

1941: Winston Churchill is the first British prime minister to address a joint meeting of the US Congress.

1982: Time Magazine's Man of the Year was given to a computer, the first time than the award went to a non-human.

1991: The collapse of the Soviet Union was finalized on this date when the Supreme Soviet officially dissolved the USSR.

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