Today in History: December 16, Colin Powell nominated for secretary of state
Currently is Tuesday Dec the th day of There are days left in the year At present in history On Dec President-elect George W Bush nominated Colin Powell to become secretary of state Powell was proven by the Senate and became the first African-American to hold the position Also on this date In the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded British ships in Boston Harbor and dumped more than chests of tea overboard to protest tea taxes Related Articles Carl Carlton funk singer behind She s a Bad Mama Jama dies at Crews use sandbags to shore up levee breach near Seattle after failure prompts flood warning US Army names Iowa Guard members killed in attack in Syria Trump administration says it necessities to fight SNAP fraud but the extent of the matter is unclear Milwaukee judge on trial for aiding immigrant advised staffer she d take the heat In U S Navy battleships which came to be known as the Great White Fleet set sail from Hampton Roads Virginia on a -month round-the-world voyage to demonstrate American sea power In the World War II Battle of the Bulge began as German forces launched a surprise attack against Allied forces through the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg In people were killed when a United Air Lines DC- and a TWA Super Constellation collided over New York City In a French court convicted people accused of being accomplices in the Islamic State terror attacks in Paris against the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket The attacks claimed jointly by the Islamic State group and al-Qaida left people dead along with three gunmen In a -year-old candidate opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison Wisconsin killing a fellow aspirant and a facilitator The shooter also died In the present day s Birthdays Artist Edward Ruscha is Actor Liv Ullmann is CBS news correspondent Lesley Stahl is Pop singer Benny Andersson ABBA is Rock singer-musician Billy Gibbons ZZ Top is Actor Benjamin Bratt is Filmmaker James Mangold is Actor-comedian JB Smoove is Actor Miranda Otto is Astrophysicist Adam Reiss is Actor Krysten Ritter is Singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno is Actor Theo James is Actor Anna Popplewell is Actor Stephan James is Pop singer Zara Larsson is
