Thursday, December 16, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

DECEMBER 16
1972:With a 16-0 victory over the Baltimore Colts, the Miami Dolphins finish their season with a 14-0-0 record. They will go on to win all their postseason games, culminating with a 14-7 win over the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII. The 1972 Miami Dolphins remain the only team in NFL history to execute a perfect regular season and postseason.

1773: A group of American colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians raid three docked British tea ships in an event now known as the Boston Tea Party. The colonists throw 342 chests of tea overboard to protest the East India Company's de facto monopoly on the tea trade and Parliament's policies of "taxation without representation."

1990: In a landslide victory, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, an ordained Catholic priest, becomes the first democratically elected president of Haiti.

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