On This Very Day
December 16th
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- 1707
Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
- 1907
President Theodore Roosevelt sends the 'Great White Fleet' on a world cruise.
- 1920
8.5 magnitude earthquake hits Gansu province, China, killing an estimated 200,000. View Post →
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- 1773
Boston Tea Party occurs, a pivotal event in the American Revolution.
- 1998
Eric Michelman files the earliest patent for a scroll wheel for a computer mouse.
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