December 16 Events |
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| December 16th, 1998 (December 16 1998) | Event | Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert FoxThe United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq. | |
| December 16th, 1991 (December 16 1991) | Event | United Nations General Assembly: UN General Assembly Resolution 4686 revokes UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 after Israel makes revocation of resolution 3379 a condition of its participation in the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991. | |
| December 16th, 1991 (December 16 1991) | Event | Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan. | |
| December 16th, 1989 (December 16 1989) | Event | Protest breaks out in Timisoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor, Laszlo Tokes. | |
| December 16th, 1989 (December 16 1989) | Event | Walter LeRoy Moody begins his terrorist bombing streak when he sends Judge Robert Smith Vance a bomb in the mail, instantly killing him near his house in Birmingham, Alabama. | |
| December 16th, 1986 (December 16 1986) | Event | Revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist party, known as Zheltoksan, which becomes the first sign of ethnic strife during Gorbachev s tenure | |
| December 16th, 1985 (December 16 1985) | Event | Mafia: In New York City, Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of the Gambino family. | |
| December 16th, 1982 (December 16 1982) | Event | The Federal Reserve announces that the operating capacity of factories has gone down to 67.8%. | |
| December 16th, 1979 (December 16 1979) | Event | Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, having an immediate dramatic effect on the United States. | |
| December 16th, 1978 (December 16 1978) | Event | Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $14,000,000 to local banks. | |
| December 16th, 1972 (December 16 1972) | Event | Vietnam War: Henry Kissinger announces that North Vietnam has left private peace negotiations, in Paris. | Henry Kissinger Quotes |
| December 16th, 1971 (December 16 1971) | Event | Bangladesh War of Independence and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan army brings an end to both conflicts. | |
| December 16th, 1971 (December 16 1971) | Event | Independence Day of the State of Bahrain from British Protectorate Status | |
| December 16th, 1965 (December 16 1965) | Event | 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. | Robert McNamara Quotes |
| December 16th, 1960 (December 16 1960) | Event | 1960 New York air disaster: While approaching New York s Idlewild Airport, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collides with a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation in a blinding snowstorm over Staten Island, killing 134. | |
| December 16th, 1957 (December 16 1957) | Event | Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan. | |
| December 16th, 1950 (December 16 1950) | Event | President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight with communist North Korea in the Korean War. | Harry S. Truman Quotes |
| December 16th, 1949 (December 16 1949) | Event | Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget, later knows as SAAB, is founded in Sweden. | |
| December 16th, 1947 (December 16 1947) | Event | William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor. | |
| December 16th, 1946 (December 16 1946) | Event | Leon Blum becomes Prime Minister of France. | |
| December 16th, 1944 (December 16 1944) | Event | World War II: Battle of the BulgeGeneral Dwight D. Eisenhower s allied forces and Field Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt s German army engage in the Belgian Ardennes. | Gerd von Rundstedt Quotes |
| December 16th, 1942 (December 16 1942) | Event | Holocaust: PorajmosHeinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz. | Heinrich Himmler Quotes |
| December 16th, 1941 (December 16 1941) | Event | World War II: Japanese occupy Miri, Sarawak | |
| December 16th, 1938 (December 16 1938) | Event | Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| December 16th, 1937 (December 16 1937) | Event | 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. | |
| December 16th, 1925 (December 16 1925) | Event | Alpha Phi Omega national service fraternity is founded at Lafayette College. | |
| December 16th, 1922 (December 16 1922) | Event | President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zacheta Gallery in Warsaw. | |
| December 16th, 1920 (December 16 1920) | Event | The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000. | |
| December 16th, 1914 (December 16 1914) | Event | World War I: German battleships under Franz Von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough. | |
| December 16th, 1910 (December 16 1910) | Event | During a ground test of his Coanda-1910 plane, Henri Coanda, caught unaware by the power of the engine, finds himself briefly airborne and loses control of the machine which crashes to the ground. | |
| December 16th, 1907 (December 16 1907) | Event | Great White Fleet started its circumnavigation of the world | |
| December 16th, 1893 (December 16 1893) | Event | Antonin Dvorak s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, "From The New World" was given its world premiere at Carnegie Hall. | Antonin Dvorak Quotes |
| December 16th, 1864 (December 16 1864) | Event | American Civil War: Franklin-Nashville CampaignBattle of NashvilleMajor General George H. Thomas s Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood s Confederate Army of Tennessee. | Thomas Hood Quotes |
| December 16th, 1863 (December 16 1863) | Event | American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Army of Tennessee. | |
| December 16th, 1850 (December 16 1850) | Event | History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton. | |
| December 16th, 1838 (December 16 1838) | Event | Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius combat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. | |
| December 16th, 1826 (December 16 1826) | Event | Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia. | |
| December 16th, 1811 (December 16 1811) | Event | The first two in a series of severe earthquakes occurs, in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. | |
| December 16th, 1773 (December 16 1773) | Event | American Revolution: Boston Tea PartyMembers of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act. | |
| December 16th, 1761 (December 16 1761) | Event | Seven Years War: After four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg. | |
| December 16th, 1707 (December 16 1707) | Event | Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan. | |
| December 16th, 1689 (December 16 1689) | Event | Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights. | |
| December 16th, 1653 (December 16 1653) | Event | English Interregnum: The ProtectorateOliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. | Oliver Cromwell Quotes |
| December 16th, 1598 (December 16 1598) | Event | Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang PointThe final battle of the Seven Year War is fought between the Korean and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive Korean victory. | |
| December 16th, 1575 (December 16 1575) | Event | The 1575 Valdivia earthquake takes place. | |
| December 16th, 1497 (December 16 1497) | Event | Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal. | |
| December 16th, 1431 (December 16 1431) | Event | Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris. | |
| December 16th, 1392 (December 16 1392) | Event | Nanboku-choEmperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu. | |
| December 16th, 0755 (December 16 0755) | Event | An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion during the Tang Dynasty of China. | |
