The Morning Journal (Lorain, OH)
TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Dec. 16, 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 Belgium and Luxembourg.
ALSO ON THIS DATE 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.
1905
The entertainment trade publication Variety came out with its first weekly issue.
1950
President Harry S. Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight “world conquest by Communist imperialism.”
1960
134 people were killed when a United Air Lines DC-8 and a TWA Super Constellation collided over New York City.
1976
The government halted its swine flu vaccination program following reports of paralysis apparently linked to the vaccine.
1980
Harland Sanders, founder of the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain, died in Shelbyville, Kentucky, at age 90.
1982
Environmental Protection Agency head Anne M. Gorsuch became the first Cabinet-level officer to be cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to submit documents requested by a congressional committee.
1985
At services in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, offered condolences to families of 248 soldiers killed in the crash of a chartered plane in Newfoundland.
1991
The U.N. General Assembly rescinded its 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism by a vote of 111-25.
2000
President-elect George W. Bush selected Colin Powell to become the first AfricanAmerican secretary of state.