This Day In History

December 16th

1773  The Boston Tea Party.  American colonists protested the new tea tax by dumping over than 300 chests of tea into Boston harbor.
1903  Women ushers employed for the first time at the Majestic Theatre in New York City.
1905  The first issue of Variety Magazine published by Sime Silverman.
1907  Eugene H. Farrar becomes the first singer to broadcast on radio, singing from the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York the song Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
1912  The first postage stamp to depict an airplane was issued at .20 cents.

1770  Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
1863  Philosopher George Santayana
1899  Actor Sir Noel Coward
1901  Anthropologist Margaret Mead
1906  Russian Communist Leader Leonid Brezhnev
1917  Science Fiction Author Arthur Clarke
1941  Journalist Lesley Stahl

1962

• Big Girls Don't Cry - The 4 Seasons

• Limbo Rock - Chubby Checker

• Telstar - The Tornadoes

• I've Been Everywhere - Hank Snow

1970

• The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles

• One Less Bell to Answer - The 5th Dimension

• My Sweet Lord - George Harrison

• Endlessly - Sonny James

1978

• You Don't Bring Me Flowers - Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond

• Too Much Heaven - Bee Gees

• My Life - Billy Joel

• The Gambler - Kenny Rogers

1986

• The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby and The Range

• Walk like an Egyptian - Bangles

• Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung

• Hell and High Water - T. Graham Brown

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