Today is Thursday, December 16, the 350th day of 2010. There are 15 days left in the year.
1431 ― King Henry VI of England crowned king of France
1631 ― Mt. Vesuvius, Italy, erupts, destroys six villages and kills 4,000
1689 ― English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
1773 ― Big tea party in Boston harbor-Indians welcome (Boston Tea Party)
1809 ― Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by the French Senate
1913 ― Charlie Chaplin began his film career at Keystone for $150 a week
1915 ― Albert Einstein publishes his ``General Theory of Relativity"
1950 ― Truman proclaims state of emergency against ``Communist imperialism"
1966 ― Jimi Hendrix releases its first single, ``Hey Joe," in the U.K.
1987 ― Roh Tae-woo wins presidential election in South Korea