What happend on 16th December

This is day of

The United Nations established the International Day of Reconciliation to promote reconciliation and peace in post-conflict societies.

1972

Apollo 17, the final mission of NASA's Apollo program and the last crewed lunar landing to date, launches from Kennedy Space Center.

1917

Father Edward J. Flanagan establishes Boys Town in Nebraska, providing a home for troubled and orphaned boys.

1903

Orville and Wilbur Wright make history by achieving the first powered, controlled, and sustained flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

1863

George Santayana, a renowned American author and humorist famous for the saying "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," is born.

1773

The historic Boston Tea Party occurs as American colonists, protesting British taxation and tea monopoly, throw tea into Boston Harbor.