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On December 16, 1773, a group of angry rebels calling themselves the "Sons of Liberty" protested the Tea Act and disguised as Mohawk natives boarded three ships in Boston Harbor loaded with tea and proceeded to dump 92,000 pounds of tea into the ocean. King George III reacted to the "tea party" by ordering the closing of the port of Boston.
A ship laden with tea was supposed to arrive in Boston in 1773, where its contents would likely have been dumped. ... But the dunk heard round the world happened in Boston, on Dec. 16, 1773, when ...
1773 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1773rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 773rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1773, the ...
The Philadelphia Tea Party was an incident in late December 1773, shortly after the more famous Boston Tea Party, [1] in which a British tea ship was intercepted by American colonists and forced to return its cargo to Great Britain.
Monday Night Football, happened to be celebrating its 15th season in 1984. Two more ABC-aired Super Bowls would occur during major anniversary seasons for MNF – Super Bowl XXIX (also won by the San Francisco 49ers ) closed out the 25th anniversary season (1994), and Super Bowl XXXIV (won by the St. Louis Rams , division rivals of the 49ers ...
The Rams have been able to right the ship of their 2024 season thanks to the returns of two major weapons in the passing game. Los Angeles is now 5-5 after a 1-4 start to the season and 2-1 in the ...
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. [2] The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts.
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