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    Out of Our Past: Helen Keller spoke in Richmond in 1913

    On Dec. 16, 1653, Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

    On Dec. 6, 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place when American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea overboard to protest tea taxes.

    On Dec.

    6, 1809, Napoleon Bonaparte was divorced from the Empress Josephine by an act of the French Senate.

    On Dec. 16, 1916, Gregory Rasputin, the monk who had wielded powerful influence over the Russian court, was murdered by a group of noblemen.

    On Dec.

    16, 1944, the Battle of the Bulge during World War II began as German forces launched a surprise counterattack against Allied forces in Belgium.

    On Dec. 16, 1950, President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "Communist imperialism."

    On Dec.

    16, 1991, the U.N. General Assembly rescinded its 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism.

    On Dec. 16,1998, President Bill Clinton ordered a