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December 16 in history

1773 — Boston Tea Party

16 Dec 1773 — Three shiploads of taxed tea go into the harbor. Parliament answers with the Coercive Acts; the colonies answer with a Congress.

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1864 — Nashville

15–16 Dec 1864 — Thomas comes out of his works and annihilates what Franklin left. The Confederacy’s second great army effectively ceases to exist; the West is decided.

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1944

Out of the fog of the Ardennes, Hitler’s last reserves strike west. The Bulge will consume them within a month.

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1972 — Wiriyamu

16 Dec 1972 — Portuguese troops massacre the villagers of Wiriyamu in Mozambique; the killing, exposed by missionaries, shames Lisbon before the world on the eve of its own revolution. Remember them.

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