As we speak is Monday, Dec. 16, the 351st day of 2024. There are 15 days left within the 12 months.
As we speak in historical past:
On Dec. 16, 1773, the Boston Tea Celebration happened as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped greater than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes.
Additionally on this date:
In 1907, 16 U.S. Navy battleships, which got here to be generally known as the “Nice White Fleet,” set sail on a 14-month, round-the-world voyage to exhibit American sea energy.
In 1944, the World Battle II Battle of the Bulge started as German forces launched a shock assault towards Allied forces by way of the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg.
In 1960, 134 folks have been killed when a United Air Strains DC-8 and a TWA Tremendous Constellation collided over New York Metropolis.
In 2000, President-elect George W. Bush chosen Colin Powell to turn out to be the primary African American secretary of state.
In 2014, Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run faculty within the northwestern Pakistan metropolis of Peshawar, killing not less than 148 folks, together with greater than 130 schoolchildren.
As we speak’s Birthdays:
- Artist Edward Ruscha is 87.
- Actor Liv Ullmann is 86.
- CBS information correspondent Lesley Stahl is 83.
- Pop singer Benny Andersson (ABBA) is 78.
- Rock singer-musician Billy Gibbons (ZZ Prime) is 75.
- Actor Benjamin Bratt is 61.
- Filmmaker James Mangold is 61.
- Actor-comedian JB Smoove is 59.
- Actor Miranda Otto is 57.
- Actor Krysten Ritter is 43.
- Actor Theo James is 40.
- Actor Anna Popplewell is 36.
- Actor Stephan James is 31.
