Daily Almanac: Dec. 16, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 7:59 a.m.
SET: 5:19 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 34 °F
LOW: 29 °F

Today is…

• Boston Tea Party Day
• Stupid Toy Day
• Underdog Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1944 World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest
• 1773 Boston Tea Party: Sons of Liberty Members disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act
• 1777 Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation

Births On This Day:

• 1866 Wassily Kandinsky
Russian/French painter
• 1901 Margaret Mead
American anthropologist

Deaths On This Day:

• 1980 Colonel Sanders
American businessman and founder of KFC
• 1988 Sylvester
American singer-songwriter, pianist and producer