At present is Tuesday, Dec. 16, the 350th day of 2025. There are 15 days left within the 12 months.
At present in historical past:
On Dec. 16, 2000, President-elect George W. Bush nominated Colin Powell to change into secretary of state; Powell was confirmed by the Senate and have become the primary African-American to carry the place.
Additionally on this date:
In 1773, the Boston Tea Get together occurred as American colonists boarded British ships in Boston Harbor and dumped greater than 300 chests of tea overboard to protest tea taxes.
In 1907, 16 U.S. Navy battleships, which got here to be often known as the “Nice White Fleet,” set sail from Hampton Roads, Virginia, on a 14-month, round-the-world voyage to reveal American sea energy.
In 1944, the World Conflict II Battle of the Bulge started as German forces launched a shock assault in opposition to Allied forces by way of the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg.
In 1960, 134 individuals have been killed when a United Air Strains DC-8 and a TWA Tremendous Constellation collided over New York Metropolis.
In 2020, a French courtroom convicted 14 individuals accused of being accomplices within the 2015 Islamic State terror assaults in Paris in opposition to the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher grocery store. The assaults, claimed collectively by the Islamic State group and al-Qaida, left 17 individuals lifeless together with three gunmen.
In 2024, a 15-year-old scholar opened hearth at Considerable Life Christian Faculty in Madison, Wisconsin, killing a fellow scholar and a instructor. The shooter additionally died.
At present’s Birthdays:
- Artist Edward Ruscha is 88.
- Actor Liv Ullmann is 87.
- CBS information correspondent Lesley Stahl is 84.
- Pop singer Benny Andersson (ABBA) is 79.
- Rock singer-musician Billy Gibbons (ZZ Prime) is 76.
- Actor Benjamin Bratt is 62.
- Filmmaker James Mangold is 62.
- Actor-comedian JB Smoove is 60.
- Actor Miranda Otto is 58.
- Astrophysicist Adam Reiss is 56.
- Actor Krysten Ritter is 44.
- Singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno is 44.
- Actor Theo James is 41.
- Actor Anna Popplewell is 37.
- Actor Stephan James is 32.
- Pop singer Zara Larsson is 28.