A bit of December 16th history…
1653 - Parliamentarian General, Oliver Cromwell, appointed as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland
1689 - English Parliament passes Bill of Rights establishing limits on crown’s powers and requirements for regular elections
1773 - Boston Tea Party incident - Sons of Liberty protesters throw tea shipments into Boston Harbor in protest against British imposed Tea Act (pictured)
1907 - As a gesture of the US’s new presence as a world power, President Roosevelt sends the ‘Great White Fleet’ on a round-the-world cruise, visiting ports internationally
1944 - Nazi Germany launches a counteroffensive against the Allies in Belgium, beginning the “Battle of the Bulge”
1953 - 1st White House Press Conference - Eisenhower & 161 reporters
1998 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert Fox - the US and UK bomb targets in Iraq
2009 - Ben Bernanke, Chair of the US Federal Reserve is named Time’s Person of the Year for rescuing the global economy from the Great Recession
A bit of December 16th history… 1653 - Parliamentarian General,...