Taliban kills more than 140 in Pakistani school attack
December 16 (UPI) — On this date in history:
In 1773, approximately 50 American patriots protesting a British tax on tea threw 342 chests of tea into Boston harbor in what became known as the “Boston Tea Party.”
In 1835, a fire ravaged New York, destroying 600 buildings and causing $20 million in damage.
In 1893, Anton Dvorak’s “New World Symphony” premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York.
In 1907, America’s “Great White Fleet” set out on a year-long circumnavigation of the world at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt.
Panzergrenadier-SS Kampfgruppe Hansen in action during hostilities against Task Force Myers at Poteau, Belgium, on 18 December 1944, as part of the Battle of the Bulge. File Photo Courtesy of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
In 1913, British actor Charles Chaplin began a legendary film career working at Keystone Studios in Hollywood. The entertainer became known for his trademark hat and cane.
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Re-enactors pour chests of tea into Boston Harbor from a ship at the Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum on December 13, 1998, to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. On December 16, 1773, approximately 50 American patriots protesting a British tax on tea threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. File Photo: Lee K. Marriner/UPI
Germany in 1944 launched a counterattack It was called the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.
131 people were killed in 1960 collision Two planes over foggy New York Harbor.
Spectators watching the arrival of the United States Navy’s “Great White Fleet” as they arrived in Sydney Harbor in 1908. On December 16, 1907, the fleet began a year-long circumnavigation of the globe on the orders of President Theodore Roosevelt. File Photo Courtesy of the Australian National Maritime Museum
In 1971, the Pakistani army surrendered in a war with India and the people of Bengal who wanted independence. The surrender established Bangladesh as a state. separate country.
In 1978, Cleveland, Ohio failed to meet its financial obligations, becoming the first American city to do so since the Great Depression.
In 1989, Walter LeRoy Moody detonated the first of four pipe bombs. attack waves killed two people. The first bomb killed federal judge Robert Vance at his home in Alabama.
UN General Assembly in 1991 repealed a decision We identify Zionism with racism. It was a major obstacle to achieving peace in the Middle East.
In 1998, US and British warplanes began a war. four night campaign Bombing of more than 100 Iraqi military targets in an operation called Operation Desert Fox. The long-threatened action came after allies concluded that Iraq would not cooperate with UN weapons inspectors.
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In 2008, the UN Security Council first solution He called on both sides to step up their efforts for a lasting peace, addressing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process within five years, and stated that US-brokered talks were “irreversible”.
Taliban militants in 2014 attacked a school More than 140 people, most of them children, were killed in Peshawar, Pakistan.
In 2020, a 9-year-old British girl who died of an asthma attack in 2013 first person Air pollution must be stated as the cause of death on death certificates around the world.
In 2024, a student and teacher were killed and several others were injured after a 15-year-old student named Natalie Rupnow was killed. shots were opened At a small private Christian school in Wisconsin. Rupnow died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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