Dick Clark (Richard Wagstaff Clark)
(November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)
Ashli Elizabeth Pamatian Babbitt (1985 – 2021)
On January 6, 2021, during the United States
Capitol attack, Capitol Police officer Michael
Byrd (below) shot and killed UNARMED Ashli
Babbitt, one of the rioters, while ATTEMPTING
to breach a barricaded door leading to the
Speaker’s Lobby, where members of the u.s.
evacuated.
In Boston Harbor on this day in 1773, a group of Massachusetts
colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea
ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,”
was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill
designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly
lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the
American tea trade. The low tax allowed the East India Company
to undercut even tea smuggled into America by Dutch traders, a
nd many colonists viewed the act as another example of taxation
tyranny.
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English singer,
songwriter, and television personality. He rose to
prominence during the 1970s as the lead vocalist
of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, during
which period he adopted the nickname "Prince of
Darkness". He’s 73 years old today.