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Boston Tea Party

NPR
Published December 15, 1995 at 10:00 PM MST

Storyteller Jay O'Callahan reminds us that today is the 222nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. On that day in 1773, colonists threw into Boston Harbor a shipload of tea which King George of England was trying to force down their throat.

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