On this date in:

1653 Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

1773 The Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea overboard to protest tea taxes.

1809 Napoleon Bonaparte was divorced from the Empress Josephine by an act of the French Senate.

1899 Playwright Noel Coward was born in London.

1916 Gregory Rasputin, the monk who had wielded powerful influence over the Russian court, was murdered by a group of noblemen.

1917 Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead, England.

1944 The Battle of the Bulge during World War II began as German forces launched a surprise counterattack against Allied forces in Belgium.

1960 A United Air Lines DC-8 and a TWA Super Constellation collided over New York City, killing 134 people.

This date in 1962 i was 3 months old.

I was 11 days old