Today in History: December 16, Colin Powell nominated for secretary of state
The present day is Tuesday Dec the th day of There are days left in the year In the modern day in history On Dec President-elect George W Bush nominated Colin Powell to become secretary of state Powell was endorsed 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 The killings of Rob and Michele Reiner shatter family s gentle legacy Grand Canyon reopens South Rim hotels after water-line is repaired An aspiring neurosurgeon and a campus Republican died in the Brown campus shooting General Hospital star Anthony Geary of Luke and Laura fame dies at 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 trainee opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison Wisconsin killing a fellow pupil and a tutor The shooter also died At present 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
