George Santayana 1863
- 1773 - Nearly 350 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor off of British ships by Colonial patriots. The patriots were disguised as Indians. The act was to protest taxation without representation and the monopoly the government granted to the East India Company.
- 1838 - The Zulu chief Dingaan was defeated by a small force of Boers at Blood River celebrated in South Africa as 'Dingaan's Day'.
- 1944 - During World War II, the Battle of the Bulge began in Belgium. It was the final major German counteroffensive in the war.
- 1950 - U.S. President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "Communist imperialism."
- 1995 - Many U.S. government functions were again closed as a temporary finance provision expired and the budget dispute between President Clinton and Republicans in Congress continued.
- 1996 - Britain's agriculture minister announced the slaughter of an additional 100,000 cows thought to be at risk of contracting BSE in an effort to persuade the EU to lift its ban on Britain.
- 1998 - Eric Michelman filed the earliest patent for a scroll wheel for a computer mouse.
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