Today in History Today is Wednesday, Dec. 16, the 351st day of 2020. There are 15 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 16, 2000, President-elect George W. Bush selected Colin Powell to become the first African-American secretary of state. On this date: In 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes. In 1809, the French Senate granted a divorce decree to Emperor Napoleon I and Empress Josephine (the dissolution was made final the following month). In 1811, the first of the powerful New Madrid (MAD'-rihd) earthquakes struck the central Mississippi Valley with an estimated magnitude of 7.7. In 1905, the entertainment trade publication Variety came out with its first weekly issue. In 1944, the World War II Battle of the Bulge began as German forces launched a surprise attack against Allied forces through the Ardennes Forest in...
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