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Events on the 16th of December in history

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16 Dec 0714 Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald while his wife Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom.
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16 Dec 0755 An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Yanjing, initiating the An Lushan Rebellion during the Tang dynasty of China.
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16 Dec 0882 Marinus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding John VIII
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16 Dec 0882 John VIII ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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16 Dec 0882 Marinus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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16 Dec 1431 Hundred Years' War: Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris.
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16 Dec 1431 King Henry VI of England crowned king of France
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16 Dec 1497 Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
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16 Dec 1538 King Francois I orders renewed pursuit of Protestants
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16 Dec 1538 King Fran
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16 Dec 1575 An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.5 strikes Valdivia, Chile.
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16 Dec 1577 Danzig surrenders to troops of Polish king Istv
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16 Dec 1598 Seven-Year War: Battle of Noryang – The final battle of the Seven-Year War is fought between the China and the Korean allied forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive allied forces victory.
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16 Dec 1617 Spanish viceroy Hernando Arias de Saavedra founds provinces R
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16 Dec 1631 Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages and kills 4,000
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16 Dec 1653 Oliver Cromwell sworn in as English Lord Protector
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16 Dec 1653 English Interregnum: The Protectorate – Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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16 Dec 1653 Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland & Ireland
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16 Dec 1659 General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland
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16 Dec 1689 Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
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16 Dec 1689 English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
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16 Dec 1707 Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
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16 Dec 1740 Prussian Libya falls to Silezie
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16 Dec 1761 Seven Years' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kołobrzeg.
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16 Dec 1761 Russian army occupies Kolberg
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16 Dec 1767 Van Ritter von Glucks opera "Alceste" premiers
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16 Dec 1773 American Revolution: Boston Tea Party – Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
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16 Dec 1773 Big tea party in Boston harbor-Indians welcome (Boston Tea Party)
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16 Dec 1809 Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by the French Senate
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16 Dec 1811 8.0 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
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16 Dec 1811 The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri.
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16 Dec 1811 Most violent & prolonged quakes in US begins in Midwest region; 8.0 earthquake shakes New Madrid MO
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16 Dec 1817 Leaders of Molukkas uprising hanged in Ambon
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16 Dec 1824 Great North Holland Canal opens
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16 Dec 1826 Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas, and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
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16 Dec 1835 Fire consumes over 600 buildings in New York NY
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16 Dec 1838 Great Trek: Battle of Blood River – Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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16 Dec 1838 Boers beat Zulu chieftain Dingaan in South Africa
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16 Dec 1850 The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.
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16 Dec 1857 Earthquake in Naples, Italy
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16 Dec 1858 Dutch government decides to vacate Schokland Island
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16 Dec 1862 Kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution
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16 Dec 1863 American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.
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16 Dec 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Nashville – Major General George Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.
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16 Dec 1864 Battle of Nashville ends after 4400 casualities
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16 Dec 1877 Anton Bruckner's 3rd Symphony in D, premieres
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16 Dec 1880 Republic of South-Africa forms
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16 Dec 1884 Great Britain recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
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16 Dec 1886 Rift at Dutch Reformed Church over "Doleantie"
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16 Dec 1890 Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, Tennessee
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16 Dec 1892 Commencement of 1st Sheffield Shield cricket game, South Africa vs New South Wales
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16 Dec 1893 Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres
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16 Dec 1897 1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated
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16 Dec 1900 Boer army under General Kritzinger take Cape colony
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16 Dec 1901 Boer general Kritzinger captured
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16 Dec 1903 Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to the guests.
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16 Dec 1903 Majestic Theater, New York NY, becomes 1st in US to employ women ushers
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16 Dec 1905 "Variety, " covering all phases of show business, 1st published
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16 Dec 1907 The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.
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16 Dec 1907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on its World Cruise
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16 Dec 1907 Eugene H Farrar is 1st to sing on radio (Brooklyn Navy Yard NY)
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16 Dec 1908 1st credit union in US forms (Manchester NH)
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16 Dec 1909 US pressure forces Nicaraguan President Jose Santos Zelaya from office
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16 Dec 1909 US pressure forces Nicaraguan President Jos
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16 Dec 1912 1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cents parcel post, issued
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16 Dec 1912 First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.
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16 Dec 1912 1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20
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16 Dec 1912 Austria-Hungary engage in conflict with Serbia
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16 Dec 1913 Charlie Chaplin began his film career at Keystone for $150 a week
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16 Dec 1914 World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
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16 Dec 1914 French offensive in Artois (P
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16 Dec 1915 Albert Einstein publishes his "General Theory of Relativity"
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16 Dec 1918 Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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16 Dec 1918 Jack Dempsey KOs Carl Morris in 14 seconds
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16 Dec 1920 The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
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16 Dec 1920 Over 180,000 die when 8.6 earthquake destroys 15,000
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16 Dec 1922 President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.
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16 Dec 1922 Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Baseball Clubs formally organizes
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16 Dec 1922 New South Wales all out for 786 against South Australia Cricket
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16 Dec 1924 Noel Coward's "Vortex" premieres in London
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16 Dec 1926 Darius Milhauds opera "Le Pauvre Matelot, " premieres in Paris
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16 Dec 1926 WOW-AM in Omaha NE begins radio transmissions
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16 Dec 1926 Kenesaw Mountain Landis renewed 7-years as baseball commissioner
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16 Dec 1927 Donald Bradman makes his debut in first-class cricket for New South Wales against South Australia. Batting at No. 7, he scores a century.
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16 Dec 1927 Cricket 1st-class debut of Don Bradman, New South Wales vs South Australia
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16 Dec 1929 Chicago Blackhawks 1st game at Chicago Stadium, beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-1
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16 Dec 1929 1st NHL game at Chicago Stadium; Chicago Blackhawks beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-1
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16 Dec 1930 Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a 200-strong posse, following a botched bank robbery in Clinton, Indiana.
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16 Dec 1930 Golfer Bobby Jones wins James E Sullivan Award
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16 Dec 1931 German SPD begins Eiserne Front against fascism
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16 Dec 1932 Heavy earthquake ravages Kansu China, 70,000 killed
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16 Dec 1933 Abe de Vries & Sipke Castelein win Elfstedentocht
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16 Dec 1936 John Monk & Fred Finklehoff's "Brother Rat" premieres in New York NY
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16 Dec 1937 Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
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16 Dec 1938 Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.
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16 Dec 1938 Bradman scores 143 South Australia vs New South Wales, 11 fours 91 singles
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16 Dec 1939 Bradman scores 251 South Africa vs New South Wales, 271 minutes, 38 fours 2 sixes
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16 Dec 1940 British air raid on Mannheim
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16 Dec 1940 Joe Louis KOs Al McCoy in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in Chicago
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16 Dec 1941 World War II: Japanese forces occupy Miri, Sarawak.
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16 Dec 1941 Sarawak occupied by the Japanese
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16 Dec 1942 The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.
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16 Dec 1942 Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia & Balkan
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16 Dec 1943 "Tamiami Champion" trains collide, kills 73 and injures 200
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16 Dec 1944 US 2nd Inf division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" Wahlerscheid
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16 Dec 1944 World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
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16 Dec 1944 Battle of the Bulge begins in Belgium
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16 Dec 1944 General Eisenhower's clerk Rickey marries corporal Pearlie
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16 Dec 1944 German V-2 strikes Antwerp bioscope (638 kill)
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16 Dec 1945 Cleveland Rams win NFL championship
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16 Dec 1946 Thailand joins the United Nations.
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16 Dec 1947 William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
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16 Dec 1948 "Lend an Ear" opens at National Theater NYC for 460 performances
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16 Dec 1949 Sukarno becomes President of Indonesia, Mokammed Hatta premier
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16 Dec 1950 Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism"
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16 Dec 1950 Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight in support of communist North Korea.
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16 Dec 1950 "Let's Make an Opera" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 performances
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16 Dec 1953 Charles E Yeager flies over 2,575 km/h in Bell X-1A
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16 Dec 1953 1st White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower & 161 reporters)
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16 Dec 1953 Charles E Yeager flies over 2,575 kph (1,650 mph) in Bell X-1A (first man to fly at nearly two and one-half times the speed of sound)
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16 Dec 1956 "Fanny" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 888 performances
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16 Dec 1957 Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
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16 Dec 1958 Bogot
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16 Dec 1959 Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48
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16 Dec 1960 "Wildcat" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 172 performances
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16 Dec 1960 TWA 266 and United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134
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16 Dec 1960 A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and 6 more on the ground.
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16 Dec 1960 134 die as United DC-8 & TWA Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York NY
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16 Dec 1961 "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden NYC after 55 performances
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16 Dec 1962 Nepal gets constitution / becomes Constitutional Hindu Monarchy
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16 Dec 1962 Constitutional Monarchical Hindu State of Nep
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16 Dec 1962 New York Giant YA Tittle sets NFL season touchdown pass record at 33 with 6 touchdowns vs Dallas (41-31)
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16 Dec 1962 David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" premieres
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16 Dec 1964 US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
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16 Dec 1965 Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966.
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16 Dec 1965 Gemini 6 returns to Earth
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16 Dec 1965 Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit
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16 Dec 1965 Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, becomes King of Tonga
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16 Dec 1966 Beatles release "Everywhere its Christmas" in the UK
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16 Dec 1966 Jimi Hendrix Experience releases its 1st single, "Hey Joe, " in the UK
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16 Dec 1967 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia 76ers scores 68 points vs Chicago
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16 Dec 1968 Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
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16 Dec 1968 KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac WI begins broadcasting
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16 Dec 1969 "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John andYoko" posters begin appearing
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16 Dec 1969 British House of Commons votes 343-185 abolishing the death penalty
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16 Dec 1970 1st successful landing on Venus (USSR)
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16 Dec 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh, and as Vijay Diwas in India.
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16 Dec 1971 The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain's independence. This is commemorated annually as Bahrain's National Day.
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16 Dec 1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares independence from Pakistan
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16 Dec 1971 Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released
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16 Dec 1972 Bangladesh Constitution goes into effect
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16 Dec 1972 Miami Dolphins become 1st undefeated NFL team (14-0-0)
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16 Dec 1973 O J Simpson becomes 1st NFLer to rush 2,000 yard in a season
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16 Dec 1973 US kidnap victim Paul Getty III freed
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16 Dec 1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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16 Dec 1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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16 Dec 1975 1st broadcast of "One Day at a Time" on CBS TV
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16 Dec 1975 Bill Veeck buys 80% of White Sox from John Allyn
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16 Dec 1976 Government halts swine flu vaccination production following reports of paralysis
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16 Dec 1976 Andrew Young named Ambassador & Chief US Delegate to UN
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16 Dec 1976 Charlie Finley's $10 million damage suit against Bowie Kuhn begins
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16 Dec 1976 Liberian tanker stranded at Nantucket, 180,000 barrels oil in sea
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16 Dec 1978 Cleveland, Ohio, becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.
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16 Dec 1978 Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of China People's Republic
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16 Dec 1979 Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.
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16 Dec 1979 68th Davis Cup: USA beats Italy in San Francisco (5-0)
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16 Dec 1979 QB Roger Staubach's last regular season game with the Dallas Cowboys
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16 Dec 1980 President-elect Reagan announces Alexander Haig as Secretary of State
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16 Dec 1981 Dutch Van Agt's 2nd government falls
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16 Dec 1982 Tom Seaver agrees to new contract with Mets
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16 Dec 1983 Riverside, California judge denies cerebral palsy victim Elizabeth Bouviato request to starve herself to death in a county hospital
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16 Dec 1983 Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time
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16 Dec 1983 Spokesperson for The Who announces the group is disbanding
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16 Dec 1985 Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family
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16 Dec 1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-L mission
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16 Dec 1986 Gennady Kolbin replaces Dinmukhamed Konayev as First Secretary of the Kazakh Communist Party, prompting the Jeltoqsan protests which began the next day.
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16 Dec 1987 Roh Tae Woo elected President of South Korea
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16 Dec 1987 Roh Tae Woo wins Presidential Election in South Korea
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16 Dec 1988 Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud
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16 Dec 1989 Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.
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16 Dec 1989 U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Smith Vance is assassinated by a mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody, Jr.
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16 Dec 1989 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket play at Bellerive Oval, Hobart (v SL)
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16 Dec 1989 Geoff Marsh completes 355 for Western Australia against South Australia
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16 Dec 1990 KUSW, Salt Lake City UT, final short-wave radio transmissions
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16 Dec 1990 Reverend Jean-Betrand Aristide elected President of Haiti
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16 Dec 1991 Kazakhstan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
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16 Dec 1991 UN reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote
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16 Dec 1991 Florida Marlins sign their 1st player, 16 year old pitcher Clemente Nunez
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16 Dec 1992 Israel orders deportation of 415 Palestinians after escalating terrorist activity
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16 Dec 1993 "Red Shoes" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 5 performances
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16 Dec 1993 Shannen Doherty (Brenda) is fired from Beverly Hills 90210
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16 Dec 1994 Davy Jones (Monkees), charged with DWI
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16 Dec 1995 Official adoption of the name of "Euro".
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16 Dec 1997 President Clinton names his Labrador retriever, "Buddy"
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16 Dec 2013 A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.
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16 Dec 2014 Militants belonging to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attacked an Army Public School in the Pakistani city of Peshawar killing 145 people.
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