December 16

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December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 15 days remaining.

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1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

1392 - Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu, ending the nanboku-cho period of competing imperial courts.
1653 - Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1689 - The English Parliament adopts the Bill of Rights.
1773 - The Boston Tea Party: a crowd of colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians dumps 342 crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the British Tea tax.
1811 - The first of a series of severe earthquakes occurs, in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri in the United States.
1838 - Boers defeat Zulu troops at Battle of Blood River, led by Dambuza and Nhlela, celebrated in South Africa as the day of the vow.
1850 - The first four ships arrive to settle Christchurch, New Zealand.
1864 - American Civil War: Union troops led by General George Thomas defeat Confederate troops in the Battle of Nashville.
1893 - World premiere of Antonin Dvorak's "New World Symphony".
1910 - Henri Coanda makes first short flight in aircraft with jet engine
1922 - Poland's President Gabriel Narutowicz assassinated.
1942 - SS Chief Heinrich Himmler orders that the Roma (gypsy) people be sent to Auschwitz for extermination.
1944 - World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins.
1944 - World War II: A V-2 rocket hits the Rex Cinema in Antwerp killing 567 people.
1946 - Léon Blum becomes Prime Minister of France.
1958 - A fire at a store in Bogotá, Colombia kills 83 people.
1960 - A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over New York City, killing 134.
1963 - Park Chung-Hee is sworn in as South Korea's fifth president.
1966 - Mao's Little Red Book is published in Beijing.
1970 - Shipworkers in Gdańsk, Poland clash with government police and the seeds of the Solidarity movement are sown.
1971 - The Pakistan Army surrenders, ending the Liberation War of Bangladesh and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 simultaneously.
1973 - O.J. Simpson becomes the first player in NFL history to rush for 2000 yards in one season.
1985 - In New York City, Mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead , making hit organizer John Gotti the leader of the Gambino family.
1989 - The Romanian Revolution begins in the city of Timişoara as a protest against an attempt to evict a dissident priest.
1990 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide is elected president of Haiti.
1991 - United Nations reverses its 1975 resolution that Zionism is racism by a vote of 111-25, with 13 abstentions.
1997 - Super Typhoon Paka makes landfall on the island of Guam with 150 mph winds.
1998 - Operation Desert Fox: American and British troops begin to bomb Iraqi targets after Iraq obstructs UN weapons inspectors.
1999 - Mud streams kill thousands in Venezuela.
2000 - NASA announces that there is an ocean beneath Jupiter moon Ganymede's icy surface.
2003 - Deborah Jin induces the formation of a fermionic condensate among fermionic atoms.