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Historical Events

16 Dec 1392
Nanboku-ch - Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu.
16 Dec 1431
King Henry VI of England crowned king of France
16 Dec 1538
King Francois I orders renewed pursuit of Protestants
16 Dec 1577
Danzig surrenders to troops of Polish king Istvan Bathory
16 Dec 1598
Seven Year War Battle of Noryang Point - in the final battle of the war Korean navy decisively defeats the Japanese
16 Dec 1617
Spanish viceroy Hernando Arias de Saavedra founds provinces Rio de la Plata (Argentina)Guaira (Paraguay)
16 Dec 1631
Mount Vesuvious Italy erupts destroys 6 villages & kills 4000
16 Dec 1659
General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland
16 Dec 1689
English Parliament passes Bill of Rights establishing limits on crown powers and requirement for regular elections
16 Dec 1707
Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
16 Dec 1761
Seven Years War After four-month siege Russian army under Pyotr Rumyantsev takes Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg (German Kolberg).
16 Dec 1767
Van Ritter von Glucks opera Alceste premieres
16 Dec 1773
Boston tea party incident - Sons of Liberty protesters throw tea shipments into Boston harbour in protest against British imposed Tea Act
16 Dec 1777
Articles of Conferation (US 1st constitution) ratified by 1st state Virginia
16 Dec 1811
Earthquake hits New Madrid Missouri causing widespread damage
16 Dec 1826
Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
16 Dec 1838
Battle of Blood River Zulu impis defeated by Voortrekkers in South Africa (Great Trek)
16 Dec 1850
Ships the Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton New Zealand
16 Dec 1858
Dutch government decides to vacate Schokland Island
16 Dec 1864
Battle of Nashville ends after 4400 casualities
16 Dec 1880
Transvaal region declares itself as the Republic of South Africa
16 Dec 1880
Beginning of the First Boer War between British Empire and Boer South African Republic
16 Dec 1883
Tonkin Campaign The French capture the citadel in Hanoi
16 Dec 1884
Great Britain recognizes King Leopold IIs Congo Free State
16 Dec 1886
Rift at Dutch Reformed Church over Doleantie
16 Dec 1890
Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson TN
16 Dec 1892
Commencement of 1st Sheffield Shield cricket game SA v NSW
16 Dec 1893
Anton Dvoraks Symphony No. 9 New World Symphony premieres at Carnegie Hall New York
16 Dec 1897
1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated
16 Dec 1899
Italian football club A.C. Milan founded as Milan Foot-Ball and Cricket Club by Englishmen Alfred Edwards and Herbert Kilpin (disputed possibly 13 Dec)
16 Dec 1900
Boer army under gen Kritzinger take Cape colony
16 Dec 1900
A National Civic Federation is formed in the US to arbitrate labor disputes
16 Dec 1903
Majestic Theater NYC becomes 1st in US to employ women ushers
16 Dec 1903
The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel opens its doors to guests for the first time
16 Dec 1905
Variety covering all phases of show business 1st published
16 Dec 1907
Eugene H Farrar is 1st to sing on radio (Bkln Navy Yard NY)
16 Dec 1909
A conservative revolution and US pressure forces Nicaraguan President Jose Santos from office
16 Dec 1912
1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane 20 cent parcel post issued
16 Dec 1912
Austria-Hungary engage in conflict with Serbia
16 Dec 1912
First Balkan War The Ottoman Navy is defeated by the Royal Hellenic Navy at the Battle of Eli
16 Dec 1914
World War I German battleships under Franz Von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
16 Dec 1918
German troops evacuate Finland give over Kiev in the Ukraine to revolutionary forces and pull back from Estonia as Bolshevik forces move in
16 Dec 1920
8.5 earthquake rocks the Gansu province in China killing an estimated 200000
16 Dec 1921
The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) calls for a united front in a pass burning campaign on Dingaans Day
16 Dec 1921
The Anglo-Irish Treaty agreed to by the British Parliament and Sinn Fein is ratified
16 Dec 1922
Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Baseball Clubs formally organizes
16 Dec 1922
NSW all out for 786 against South Australia Cricket
16 Dec 1925
Alpha Phi Omega national service fraternity is founded at Lafayette College.
16 Dec 1926
Darius Milhauds opera Le Pauvre Matelot premieres in Paris
16 Dec 1926
Kenesaw Mountain Landis renewed 7-years as baseball commissioner
16 Dec 1929
Chic Blackhawks 1st game at Chicago Stadium beat Pittsburgh Pirates 3-1
16 Dec 1933
Abe de Vries & Sipke Castelein win Elfstedentocht
16 Dec 1936
John Monks and Fred Finklehoffs play Brother Rat premieres in New York City
16 Dec 1937
Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from American federal prison Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay neither is ever seen again.
16 Dec 1939
Bradman scores 251 SA v NSW 271 minutes 38 fours 2 sixes
16 Dec 1942
Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia & Balkan
16 Dec 1943
Tamiami Champion (New York to Florida) trains collide kills 73 & injures 200
16 Dec 1944
Nazi Germany launches a counteroffensive against the Allies in the Ardennes region of Belgium beginning the Battle of the Bulge
16 Dec 1944
German V-2 strikes Antwerp bioscope (638 kill)
16 Dec 1944
US 2nd Infantry division occupies Heartbreak Crossroads Wahlerscheid
16 Dec 1946
1947 NFL Draft Bob Fenimore from University of Oklahoma A&M first pick by Chicago Bears
16 Dec 1948
Lend an Ear opens at National Theater NYC for 460 performances
16 Dec 1949
Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget later knows as SAAB is founded in Sweden.
16 Dec 1950
Lets Make an Opera closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 performances
16 Dec 1956
Fanny closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 888 performances
16 Dec 1957
Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan
16 Dec 1958
Ballon dOr Real Madrids French midfielder Raymond Kopa wins award for best football player in Europe ahead of German winger Helmut Rahn and French forward Just Fontaine
16 Dec 1959
Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48
16 Dec 1960
Wildcat opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 172 performances
16 Dec 1960
TWA 266 & United 826 collide over Staten Island kills 134
16 Dec 1961
Evening with Yves Montand closes at John Golden Theatre NYC after 55 performances
16 Dec 1962
NY Giant YA Title sets NFL season touchdown pass record at 33 with 6 touchdowns vs Dallas (41-31)
16 Dec 1962
Nepal establishes its constitution and becomes a Constitutional Hindu Monarchy
16 Dec 1966
The Beatles release Everywhere its Christmas in UK
16 Dec 1967
Playtime French film directed by Jacques Tati starring himself is released
16 Dec 1968
KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac WI begins broadcasting
16 Dec 1968
Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain at Second Vatican Council
16 Dec 1969
British House of Commons votes 343-185 to abolish the death penalty
16 Dec 1969
War is Over If You Want It Happy Christmas from John & Yoko posters begin appearing
16 Dec 1970
Love Story film based on the novel by Erich Segal directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Ryan ONeal and Ali McGraw is released
16 Dec 1971
Vijay Diwas (Victory Day) East Pakistans independence (as Bangladesh) from Pakistan is recognized internationally after Indias army occupies Dacca and 93000 West Pakistani troops surrender
16 Dec 1971
Don McLeans 8 minute version of American Pie released
16 Dec 1972
Miami Dolphins become 1st undefeated NFL team (14-0-0)
16 Dec 1973
US kidnap victim John Paul Getty III freed after ransom paid by grandfather John Paul Getty
16 Dec 1975
1st broadcast of One Day at a Time on CBS TV
16 Dec 1975
Bill Veeck buys 80% of White Sox from John Allyn
16 Dec 1976
Andrew Young named Ambassador & Chief US Delegate to UN
16 Dec 1976
Charlie Finleys 10 million damage suit against Bowie Kuhn begins
16 Dec 1976
Government halts swine flu vaccination prog following reports of paralysis
16 Dec 1989
Commencement of 1st Test Cricket play at Bellerive Oval Hobart (v SL)
16 Dec 1989
Geoff Marsh completes 355 for WA against South Australia
16 Dec 1989
Protest breaks out in Timioara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor Lszl Tks.
16 Dec 1990
Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti
16 Dec 1990
KUSW Salt Lake City Utah final shortwave radio transmissions
16 Dec 1990
Rev Jean Betrand Aristide elected president of Haiti
16 Dec 1991
Florida Marlins sign their 1st player 16 year old pitcher Clemente Nunez
16 Dec 1991
UN reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote
16 Dec 1993
Red Shoes opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 5 performances
16 Dec 1998
Iraq disarmament crisis Operation Desert Fox - the United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq
16 Dec 2012
4 people are killed after Cyclone Evan strikes Fiji
16 Dec 2012
Corinthians defeat Chelsea 1-0 to win the FIFA Club World Cup
16 Dec 2012
A gang rape of a woman on a bus in India that resulted in her death leads to national and international outrage
16 Dec 2013
21 people are killed and 20 are injured after a bus falls from an elevated highway in Manila Philippines
16 Dec 2013
79th Heisman Trophy Award Jameis Winston Florida State (QB)
16 Dec 2014
An Army Public School in Pakistan is attacked by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants who kill 145 people
16 Dec 2015
US Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.25% for the first time since 2006
16 Dec 2016
5 day pollution red alert declared in Beijing and 21 other Chinese cities classified by officials as a meteorological disaster
16 Dec 1976
Liberian tanker stranded at Nantucket 180000 barrels oil in sea
16 Dec 1978
Cleveland Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans owing 14000000 to local banks.
16 Dec 1979
68th Davis Cup USA beats Italy in San Francisco (5-0)
16 Dec 1979
QB Roger Staubachs last regular season game with the Dallas Cowboys
16 Dec 1979
4 British Army soldiers are killed by a PIRA landmine near Dungannon County Tyrone. Another British Army soldier was killed by a PIRA landmine near Forkill County Armagh
16 Dec 1979
Libya raises crude oil prices joining four other OPEC nations which has a dramatic effect on the United States
16 Dec 1979
An American Christmas Carol directed by Eric Till starring Henry Winkler premieres in the US
16 Dec 1980
President-elect Ronald Reagan announces Alexander Haig Jr. as 59th Secretary of State
16 Dec 1982
Chicago White Sox starter Tom Seaver pitches the complete game in his 300th MLB career victory a 4-1 win at Yankee Stadium
16 Dec 1982
The Federal Reserve announces that the operating capacity of factories has gone down to 67.8%.
16 Dec 1983
Spokesperson for The Who announces the group is disbanding
16 Dec 1983
Riverside California judge denies cerebral palsy victim Elizabeth Bouviato request to starve herself to death in a county hospital
16 Dec 1985
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-L mission
16 Dec 1986
Revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist party known as Zheltoksan which becomes the first sign of ethnic strife during Gorbachevs tenure
16 Dec 1988
Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax mail fraud
16 Dec 1923
National Football League Championship undefeated Canton Bulldogs (11-0-1) repeat as champions
16 Dec 1928
National Football League Championship Providence Steam Roller (8-1-2) win first past the post title
16 Dec 1945
National Football League Championship Cleveland Stadium Cleveland Rams beat Washington Redskins 15-14 last game before Rams move west to Los Angeles
16 Dec 1962
NY Giant Y. A. Tittle sets NFL season touchdown pass record at 33 with 6 touchdowns vs Dallas (41-31)
16 Dec 2004
NASAs Voyager 1 spacecraft is the 1st to cross the termination shock where solar and interstellar winds merge
16 Dec 2018
Huge explosion and fire in a restaurant in Sapporo Japan injures 42
16 Dec 2018
Sri Lankas Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is sworn back into office two months after being removed by President Sirisena
16 Dec 1631
Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts burying many villages under lava flows and killing around 3000 people
16 Dec 1864
Battle of Nashville ends after 4400 causalities
16 Dec 1893
Antonn Dvoks Symphony No. 9 - New World Symphony premieres at Carnegie Hall New York
16 Dec 1907
Eugenia Farrar is the 1st to sing over a wireless radio broadcast at the Brooklyn Navy Yard New York
16 Dec 1976
Government halts swine flu vaccination program following reports of paralysis
16 Dec 1979
Dallas QB Roger Staubach throws 3 TDs and 336 yards in his last NFL regular season game with the Cowboys a 35-34 win over Washington Redskins at Texas Stadium
16 Dec 1392
Nanboku-ch - Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu
16 Dec 1985
Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 51-L mission
16 Dec 1990
Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti
16 Dec 2020
China blocks imports of coal from Australia the worlds second biggest market for the worlds biggest coal exporter
16 Dec 2020
14 people found guilty of 2015 terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo office and supermarket in Paris
16 Dec 2020
Major winter storm hits US Northeast resulting in at least seven deaths and Binghamton New York receiving record 41 inches of snow
16 Dec 2020
Nine-year-old girl who died of an asthma attack in 2013 becomes first person in the world to officially have air pollution listed as cause of death
16 Dec 2020
US Major League Baseball announces it is elevating the Negro Leagues to Major League status
16 Dec 1938
State of California executes Ed Davis (38) leader of Folsom Prison escape attempt resulting in murder of warden and guard (San Quentin State Prison Marin County)
16 Dec 1968
KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac Wisconsin begins broadcasting
16 Dec 1970
Polish Vice-Prime Minister Stanisaw Kocioek condemns labor protesters and calls for the workers to get back to work in a televised speech
16 Dec 1991
MLB expansion club Florida Marlins sign their 1st player 16 year old pitcher Clemente Nunez
16 Dec 1659
General George Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland
16 Dec 1777
Virginia becomes 1st state to ratify Articles of Confederation (US 1st constitution)
16 Dec 1911
UK National Insurance Act becomes law providing health insurance for industrial workers (about a third of the workforce) [1]
16 Dec 1914
German warships fire more than 500 shells on northern English towns of Scarborough Whitby and Hartlepool - 1st time English civilians targeted during the war - kill 137 people [1]
16 Dec 1942
Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia and the Balkans
16 Dec 1953
Charles E. Yeager flies 2575 kph in Bell X-1A
16 Dec 1956
Harold Rome S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logans musical romance Fanny starring Ezio Pinza Walter Slezak and Florence Henderson closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 888 performances
16 Dec 1983
Riverside California judge denies cerebral palsy victim Elizabeth Bouviato request to starve herself to death in a county hospital
16 Dec 1983
Spokesperson for rock band The Who announces the group is disbanding
16 Dec 1988
American political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax and mail fraud
16 Dec 1993
Jule Styne Norman and Bob Merrills musical Red Shoes based on the 1948 film opens at Gershwin Theater NYC runs for 5 performances
16 Dec 1993
Television series MTV Unplugged broadcasts American rock band Nirvana performing a mostly acoustic set NYC
16 Dec 1998
Iraq disarmament crisis Operation Desert Fox - the United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq to degrade its ability to produce store maintain and deliver weapons of mass destruction
16 Dec 1575
Valdivia earthquake with estimated 8.5 magnitude takes place first recorded earthquake in Chile
16 Dec 1577
Danzig rebellion ends in a compromise between the citys nobility and Polish King Stephen Bthory after the King restored and recognized the citys economic and religious privileges
16 Dec 1859
Frederiksborg Castle largest Renaissance complex in Scandinavia is badly damaged in a fire - later restored and turned into a museum
16 Dec 1903
The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel opens its doors to guests for the first time in Bombay British India
16 Dec 1991
MLB expansion club Florida Marlins sign their 1st player 16-year-old pitcher Clemente Nunez
16 Dec 2021
Six children die in a bouncy castle accident at a school in Devonport Tasmasia Australia
16 Dec 2021
Super Typhoon Rai strikes the Philippines south-eastern islands with winds of 195kmh (120mph) killing at least 375
16 Dec 2022
Japan announces its biggest military build-up since WWII amid concerns over China and North Korea [1]
16 Dec 2022
Landslide sweeps through a campsite in Batang Kali township Selangor state Malaysia killing at least 21 people during the night [1]
16 Dec 1392
Nanboku-ch Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu
16 Dec 1598
Battle of Noryang Point In the final naval battle of the Imjin War the allied Korean and Chinese fleets decisively defeat the Japanese
16 Dec 1689
English Parliament passes the Bill of Rights establishing limits on the powers of the crown and the requirement for regular elections
16 Dec 1777
Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation (the first US constitution)
16 Dec 1903
Majestic Theater in New York City becomes the first theater in the US to employ women ushers
16 Dec 1903
The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel opens its doors to guests for the first time in Bombay British India becoming the first hotel in India to have electricity
16 Dec 1907
Swedish-American mezzo-soprano Eugenia Farrar sings the first songs over wireless radio - I Love You Truly and Just AWearying For You- from the Parker Building in New York City
16 Dec 1908
First credit union in the US forms in Manchester New Hampshire
16 Dec 1912
The first US postage stamp picturing an airplane officially titled 20 Cent US Parcel Post Aeroplane Carrying Mail is issued
16 Dec 1920
8.5 magnitude earthquake rocks Gansu Province in China killing an estimated 200000 people
16 Dec 1926
Darius Milhauds opera Le Pauvre Matelot (The Poor Sailor) premieres in Paris
16 Dec 1927
Australian crickets batting maestro Don Bradman makes his 1st-class debut for NSW v South Australia at the Adelaide Oval finishing Day 1 on 65 not out
16 Dec 1937
Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay neither man is ever seen again
16 Dec 1962
NY Giants quarterback Y. A. Tittle sets NFL season touchdown pass record at 33 with 6 touchdowns vs Dallas in 41-31 win
16 Dec 1967
French film Playtime directed by Jacques Tati and starring himself is released
16 Dec 1967
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia 76ers scores 68 points vs Chicago
16 Dec 1972
Miami Dolphins become the first undefeated NFL team going 14-0 in the regular season and winning all three postseason games to finish 17-0
16 Dec 1973
O.J. Simpson becomes 1st NFL running back to rush for 2000 yards in a season
16 Dec 1976
Charlie Finleys 10 million damages suit against Bowie Kuhn begins
16 Dec 1983
Yogi Berra named New York Yankees manager for second time
16 Dec 1993
Shannen Doherty (Brenda) is fired from TV series Beverly Hills 90210
16 Dec 1994
Davy Jones of pop band The Monkees is charged with driving while intoxicated
16 Dec 2004
NASAs Voyager 1 spacecraft is the first to cross the termination shock where solar and interstellar winds merge
16 Dec 2014
Thierry Henry announces his retirement as a player and states he will begin working for Sky Sports as a pundit
16 Dec 2022
Pokmon producers announce the main characters Ash Ketchum and his Pikachu are departing the anime series after 25 years [1]
16 Dec 2023
61 people drown after a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast Zuwara Libya [1]
16 Dec 2024
New research indicates 37 Bronze-Age Britons were butchered and cannibalized and their remains thrown down a shaft in Charterhouse Warren in England [1]
16 Dec 2024
Rare school shooting in Wisconsin leaves 1 teacher and one student dead with others injured - rare case of a female carrying out a mass shooting [1]