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Politics : Idea Of The Day

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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49498)12/16/2005 1:43:46 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF   of 50167
 
This Day in History

1773: Boston Tea Party
On this day in 1773, in what is known as the Boston Tea Party, American colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians threw 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company into Boston Harbor to protest a tax on tea.

More events on this day
1944: In World War II, German forces attempted to push through Allied lines in the Ardennes, beginning the Battle of the Bulge.
1838: Voortrekkers killed 3,000 Zulu at the Battle of Blood River in South Africa.
1653: British soldier and statesman Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England.
1631: More than 3,000 people were killed by a major eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
882: Marinus I became pope after the death (possibly murder) of John VIII.
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