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Today in History: Friday, December\u00a0 16, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\nOn Dec. 16, 1770, composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany.
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1653<\/td>\nOliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1773<\/td>\nThe Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea overboard to protest tea taxes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1809<\/td>\nNapoleon Bonaparte was divorced from the Empress Josephine by an act of the French Senate.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1811<\/td>\nThe first of the powerful New Madrid earthquakes, with an estimated magnitude of 7.7, struck the central Mississippi Valley.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1916<\/td>\nGregory Rasputin, the monk who had wielded powerful influence over the Russian court, was murdered by a group of noblemen.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1917<\/td>\nScience fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead, England.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1944<\/td>\nThe Battle of the Bulge during World War II began as German forces launched a surprise counterattack against Allied forces in Belgium.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1985<\/td>\nReputed organized-crime chief Paul Castellano was shot to death outside a New York City restaurant.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1990<\/td>\nJean-Bertrand Aristide was elected president of Haiti in the country’s first democratic elections.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/td>\nThe U.N. General Assembly rescinded its 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>\nPresident Bill Clinton ordered a sustained series of airstrikes against Iraq by American and British forces in response to Saddam Hussein’s continued defiance of U.N. weapons inspectors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\nPresident-elect George W. Bush selected Colin Powell to become the first African-American secretary of state.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nBritish forces formally handed over to Iraq responsibility for Basra, the last Iraqi region under their control.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nIran test-fired a missile capable of hitting Israel and parts of Europe.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nLarry King concluded his CNN talk show after 25 years.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Broadcast journalist Lesley Stahl (“60 Minutes”) turns 75 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Morris Dees<\/td>\nCivil rights attorney<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joyce Bulifant<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n79<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liv Ullmann<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n78<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Steven Bochco<\/td>\nTV producer (“NYPD Blue,” “Hill Street Blues”)<\/td>\n73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Billy Gibbons<\/td>\nRock musician (ZZ Top)<\/td>\n67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peter Orszag<\/td>\nFormer White House budget director<\/td>\n48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Krysten Ritter<\/td>\nActress (“Don\u2019t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23”)<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actor Benjamin Bratt turns 53 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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