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Today is Saturday, Dec. 16, the 350th day of 2023. There are 15 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Dec. 16, 1944, 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. (The Allies were eventually able to turn the Germans back.)
On this date:
In 1653, Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
In 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes.
In 1950, President Harry S. Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "world conquest by Communist imperialism."
In 1991, the U.N. General Assembly rescinded its 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism by a vote of 111-25.
Today's Birthdays: Actor Liv Ullmann is 85. Actor Jon Tenney is 62. Actor Benjamin Bratt is 60. R&B singer Michael McCary is 52. Actor Jonathan Scarfe is 48. Actor Anna Popplewell is 35.