History for December 16 - On-This-Day.com
Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770 - Composer, Jane Austen 1775, George Santayana 1863
Noel Coward 1899 - English actor, playwright and composer, Margaret Mead 1901, Arthur C. Clarke 1917 - Author
1773 - Nearly 350 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor off of British ships by Colonial patriots. The patriots were disguised as Indians. The act was to protest taxation without representation and the monopoly the government granted to the East India Company.
1950 - U.S. President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "Communist imperialism."
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