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On This Day:
Tuesday December 16, 2014

This is the 350th day of the year, with 15 days remaining in 2014.

Fact of the Day: Jingle Bells

Jingle Bells, the song was composed in 1857 by James Pierpont, was originally called One Horse Open Sleigh.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Irenion, Saints Ananiah, Azariah, and Michael, and St. Adelaide.
Bahrain: Independence Day (from Britain, 1971).
Bangladesh: Victory Day.
Kazakhstan: Republic Day.
South Africa: Reconciliation Day.
Mexico: beginning of Posadas.

Events

1653 - Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1773 - The 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.
1809 - Napoleon was granted a divorce from his wife Josephine; he divorced her because she had not produced children.
1811 - In the Mississippi River Valley near New Madrid, Missouri, the greatest series of earthquakes in United States history occurred with a quake of an estimated 8.6 magnitude on the Richter scale. The earthquake greatly changed the topography of the region, but it was sparsely inhabited at the time and there were no known fatalities.
1925 - One of the deadliest earthquakes in history hit the Gansu province of midwestern China, and caused massive landslides and the deaths of over 200,000 people. It measured 8.5 on the Richter scale.
1944 - The Battle of the Bulge, the last major offensive of German forces against the Allies, began as German forces launched a surprise counterattack against Allied forces in Belgium during World War II.
1951 - "Dragnet" premiered on television.
1960 - A United Airlines DC-8 and a TWA Super Constellation collided over New York City, killing 134 people.
1978 - Cleveland became the first U.S. city to default since the Depression.
1996 - Britain's agriculture minister announced the slaughter of an additional 100,000 cows thought to be at risk of contracting BSE (mad cow disease) in an effort to persuade the EU to lift its ban on British beef.
2000 - President-elect George W. Bush selected Colin Powell to become the first African-American secretary of state.

Births

1485 - Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of King Henry VIII of England, who bore him five children.
1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer.
1775 - Jane Austen, British author.
1863 - George Santayana, Spanish-born American philosopher/poet.
1899 - Sir Noel Coward, English actor, director, playwright, and composer.
1901 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist, who wrote 44 books and over 1000 articles.
1917 - Arthur C. Clark, English science fiction writer.

Deaths

1859 - Wilhelm Carl Grimm, German philologist and folklorist who teamed up with his brother, Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (Brothers Grimm) to write many folk songs and folktales.
1944 - Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader, presumably in an airplane crash (no bodies or wreckage were ever found) over water while in the military during World War II.
1980 - Colonel Harlan Sanders, founder of KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) restaurants.
2005 - Jack Anderson, Pulitzer Prize-winning American newspaper columnist, considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. He was 83.
2007 - Dan Fogelberg, American singer and songwriter.

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