Right this moment is Monday, Dec. 16, the 351st day of 2024. There are 15 days left within the yr.
Right this moment in historical past:
On Dec. 16, 1773, the Boston Tea Celebration passed off 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 referred to as the “Great White Fleet,” set sail on a 14-month, round-the-world voyage to reveal American sea energy.
In 1960, 134 folks have been killed when a United Air Traces DC-8 and a TWA Tremendous Constellation collided over New York Metropolis.
In 2000, President-elect George W. Bush chosen Colin Powell to turn into 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.
Right this moment’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.
