On December 16, 1979, night before Petroleum Organization Exporting Countries’ annual pricesetting meeting in Caracas, 1 member states announce plans to raise price of their oil by $ four and $ two per barrel. Clinton’s decision did not have key support members of Congress, who accused Clinton of using air strikes to direct attention. East Pakistan was subsequently declared Bangladesh free nation. Notice, 2 weeks after East Indian invasion Pakistan in independence support movement there, 90000 Pakistani troops surrender to Indian forces. After British rule in the Indian subcontinent in 1947, East Pakistan was declared. Have you heard of something like this before? The bombardment lasted for about one and a half hours. Now let me tell you something. At approximately eight o’clock in morning, German battle cruisers from Franz von Hipper’s Scouting Squadron catch the British navy by surprise as they begin heavy bombardment of Hartlepool and Scarborough, English port cities on the North Sea.
Now prominent as Boston Tea Party, the midnight raid was a protest of 1773 Tea Act, a billenacted bythe British parliamentto save faltering British East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on American tea trade.
Lots of colonists viewed the act as another example of Britain’s taxation tyranny.
Accordingly the quite low tax OK company to sell its tea even more cheaply than that smuggled into America by Dutch traders. Patriot leader Samuel Adams organized the ‘now famous’ tea party with about 60 members of Liberty Sons. When 2 tea ships, the Dartmouth, the Eleanor and the Beaver, arrived in Boston Harbor and the colonists demanded that tea be returned to England, Thomas Hutchinson, the ‘Britishappointed’ governor of Massachusetts, refused to permit ships to leave.
British tea dumped into Boston Harbor on December night 16 was worth more than $ 700000 in nowadays currency. In most American ports, the resistance group prominent as Liberty Sons scared off British ‘tea carrying’ ships by threatening their captains with tarring, feathering or worse. Called as long as, Bulge Battle. On this day, Germans launch last fundamental war offensive, Operation Mist, famous as the Ardennes Offensive and Bulge Battle, an attempt to push Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. I know that the colonists subsequently called the first Continental Congress to consider an united American resistance to the British. Remember, parliament, outraged by British blatant destruction property, enacted Coercive Acts, called Intolerable Acts by the colonists, in Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British GI rule in Massachusetts, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America, and required colonists to quarter British troops. Now look, the big.
Deadliest earthquakes in history hits midwestern Gansu province China, causing massive landslides and deaths of an estimated 200000 people. Basically the earthquake, that measured five magnitude on the Richter scale, affected an area of some 25000 square miles, including ten huge population centers. Since June 1985, ’77 year old’ King had hosted the hourlong CNN program.
World leaders. Musicians and similar newsmakers. While suspenderssporting host of TV talk show Larry King Live, signs off after 25 years on air, on this day in 2010, Larry King. In the Mississippi River Valley near newest Madrid, Missouri, earthquakes greatest series in history begins when a quake of an estimated six magnitude on Richter scale slams region.
Despite the earthquake greatly altered the region topography, this location was entirely sparsely inhabited at.