16. December
of the 16. December is the 350. Day of the Gregorian calendar (the 351. in leap years), thus 15 days up to the year end remain.
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of events
- 1431: At the age of 10 years the English king becomes Heinrich VI. crowned in Notre Dame in Paris to the king of France
- 1653: England first written condition, which „instrument OF Government “ announced by the English army advice in London. Olive Cromwell takes the title „to lord protector OF England, Scotland and Irish country “on
- 1740: Friedrich the large one leaves the belonging to Austria Schlesien occupy; in the consequence the Schlesi wars begin
- 1773: As Indians disguised citizens of bad clay/tone entern ships of the English East India company and destroy three charges dte. This „bad clay/tone Tea party “ places the beginning of the US-American war of independence
- 1812: The struck remainders of the Grande Armée cross the Memel and reach East Prussia. Only 18,000 from formerly 400,000 soldiers has the escape before the advancing Russian federations survives
- 1838: The Buren defeats those Zulu in the battle at the Bloodriver
- 1864: American civil war: In the involving heavy losses battle of Nashville union troops bring a defeat to the Southern States at
- 1880: The Republic of Transvaal is proclaimed by Afrikaanern
- 1941: Retaliation air raid of the British on Mannheim
- 1944: Main attack on victories in 2. World war by the British Air Force
- 1944: The Second World War: The Ardennenoffensive begins to back-throw, with which the German armed forces try in vain, the allied armed forces
- 1946: The Republic of Mahabad, a Kurdish state in Iran, by the Iranian army one conquers. The troops occupy the city Mahabad, after it had not come in the apron to the agreement
- 1957: In Rossendorf with Dresden the first atomic reactor of the GDR for the research becomes inEnterprise taken
- 1961: Establishment of Umkhonto incoming goods Sizwe, the militant arm of the African national Congress, that against the apartheid in South Africa used itself
- 1965: With death its nut/mother Taufa'ahau Tupou IV. follows. it on Tonga Throne after
- 1978: US president Jimmy Carter gives the admission to diplomatic relationship with China admits
- 1990: With overwhelming majority Jean Bertrand Aristide wins the first democratic presidency elections in the history of Haiti
- 1991: Kazakhstan becomes independently
- 1991: Hungary signsthe treaty of association with the European Union
- 1994: Albania requests the admission into NATO
- 1998: The operation the ore Fox (desert fox) begins. US-American and English troops start a four-day bombardment of military goals in the Iraq and the capital Bagdad
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Economics
- 1995: In Madrid the conference of the European advice ends, on which euro and cent were specified as designations for the future common currency.
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science and technology
- 1965: NASA starts the space probe Pioneer 6 with a delta - rocket. Last contact was to 8. December 2000: 35 years after the start
- 1967: At the Stanford university a group of scientists succeeds in isolating among them Arthur Kornberg, reduplizierfähige DNA
- 1985: InBirkenfeld (Rhineland-Palatinate) becomes the Stefan rotten donation the promotion of the fight against leukaemia - and tumor< /b> illnesses establishes
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culture
- 1835: Premiere of the amusing opera L'Éclair (lightning) of Fromental Halévy on the Opéra Comique in Paris
- 1837: Premierethe romantic opera the course to the Eisenhammer of Conradin Kreutzer at the theatre at the Kärntnertor in Vienna
- 1864: Premiere of the Operette Le Serpent à plumes of Léo Delibes at the Théâtre of the Bouffes Parisiens in Paris
- 1893: Premiere of the Symphonie No. 9 from the new world in E-Moll Opus 95 of Antonin Dvorak to the Carnegie resound in New York under Anton Seidel
- 1902: Premiere of the opera Götz by Berlichingen of Karl Goldmark at the national opera in Budapest
- 1941: Premiere of the film Quax, the break pilot with Heinz resting man in the title part
- 2000: The last transmission of the Second Channel of German Television hit parade is radiated
religion
- ,882: Marinus I. VIII. follows as a Pope after Johannes.
- ,955:Octavian, son of the influential prince Alberich II. by Spoleto, becomes as Johannes XII. Successor of the deceased of Pope Agapitus II
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disasters
- 1631: The Vesuv breaks out. The eruption costs the life to about 4,000 humans
- 1796:During the fall of the French liner Séduisant (74 cannons) before Brest 680 crew members and soldier die
- 1900: The German school ship „Gneisenau “sinks in the storm before the port of Málaga (Spain). 41 dead ones
- 1902: An earthquakethe strength demands 6.4 in Turkestan approx. 4.500 dead ones
- 1920: An earthquake of the strength 8.6 shakes the province Gansu in the Republic of China and demands approximately 200,000 victims
- 1951: New jersey, the USA. A C-46 that Miami airlines falls briefly after the start into Newark into Elizabeth River, so that 56 persons die
- 1960: Brooklyn, New York town center. Douglas a DC-8, on the flight from Chicago to Idlewild and one , Collide to super Constellation of the TWA, on the flight of Dayton, in the approach on the airport LaGuardia in the fog. 134 persons die, a child are saved
- 1966: The South Korean ferry boat Namjung Ho kentert. 270 victims are to be deplored
- 1991: The Egyptian ferry boat Salem express runs on a reef and sinks. Over 700 persons die, about 200 can be saved
sport
- 1899: The AC Milan is created
- 1900: Alemannia Aachen entries
of athlete IC world records to find based itself under the respective discipline under Leichtathletik; for events within the range formula 1 see there.
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born
- ,869: Yōzei, 57. Emperor of Japan
- 1485: Katharina of Aragón, Queen of England, first wife Heinrichs VIII
- 1565: Hermann Vultejus, German lawyer
- 1714: George Whitefield, English clergyman and one of the most famous Prediger 18. Century
- 1735: Albrecht Konrad count Finck von Finckenstein, more PrussianField marshal
- 1742: Gebhard liver-genuinly from Blücher, Prussian general field marshal
- 1770: Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer
- 1775: François-Adrien Boïeldieu, französischer Opernkomponist
- 1775: Jane Austen, English authoress
- 1776: Johann W. Knight, German physicist
- 1790: Leopold I., first king of the Belgians
- 1803: Robert Stephenson, engineer
- 1804: Wiktor Jakowlewitsch Bunjakowski, Russian mathematician
- 1805: Isidore Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, French Ethologe and zoologist
- 1807: Pierre Lachambeaudie, French fable poet
- 1826: Giambattista Donati, Italian astronomer
- 1832: William Julius Foerster, German astronomer
- 1834: Léon whale-race, French political economist
- 1836: Ernst von Bergmann, Chirurg and professor of the medicine
- 1842: Melitta petrol Alvsleben, German singer
- 1857: Edward barn pool of broadcasting corporations, US-American astronomer
- 1863: George Santayana, US-American philosopher
- 1867: Arthur Schlossmann, German child physician, founder of the first baby hospital
- 1867: Johann radon, Austrian mathematician
- 1873: Robert flax ore, German politician
- 1874: Johann Michael bad pool of broadcasting corporations, Swiss artist
- 1876: Rodolphe William Seeldrayers, Belgian Fussballfunktioär, FIFA president
- 1882: Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer
- 1888: William Murr, National Socialist politician, realm governor von Württemberg
- 1898: Johannes Semler, German politician
- 1899: Noel Coward, English dramatist
- 1901: Margaret Mead, US-American anthropologies and Ethnologin
- 1902: Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet
- 1905: Paul Wandel, Minister for national education and youth of the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
- 1905: Piet Hein, Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor and man of letters
- 1907: Angelos Tersakis, Greek writer
- 1908: Hans's Schaffner, Swiss politician
- 1917: Arthur C. Clarke, English Science Fiction writer
- 1920: Fritz Balogh, German football player
- 1924: Briefly Gscheidle, German politician
- 1924: Novel Bek, Czech philosopher in technical Wissenschaftten, lecturer
- 1925: Bert Hellinger, German Familientherapeut, member in the medal of the Mariannhiller of mission acres
- 1928: Philip K. Thickly, US-American writer
- 1929: Briefly Boeckmann, German politician and MdL
- 1930: Norbert Schlottmann, German politician and MdB
- 1931: Kenneth Gilbert, Canadian Cembalist
- 1932: Henry Taylor, English Formel-1-Rennfahrer and businessman
- 1935: Nikos Sampson, zypriotischer politician, presidentthe Republic of Cyprus
- 1936: Elizabeth Kopp, Swiss politician
- 1937: Joe Farrell, US-American jazz musician
- 1938: Live Ullmann, Norwegian actress
- 1938: Zbigniew Religa, Polish politician
- 1939: Hansjoachim roll ago, German politician
- 1942: Friedrich think, German teacher and book author
- 1942: Harm Dallmeyer, German Members of the Bundestag
- 1944: John Abercrombie, US-American guitarist and bassist
- 1944: N! xau, namibischer shrub man and actor (the Gods must be moved)
- 1945: Tony Hicks, British musician, singer and Songschreiber
- 1946: Benny Andersson one, Swedish singer, musician, ABBA member
- 1946: Roland Sandberg, Swedish football player
- 1947: Vincent Matthews, US-American athlete and olympia winner
- 1949: Billy Gibbons, US-American musician, singerand Songschreiber
- 1959: Ingo Wellenreuther, CDU politician
- 1960: Detlef Dähn, German book author, historian, photographer
- 1962: Charlie Mottet, French wheel running driver
- 1963: Bärbel shepherds, German television host and Fernsehproduzentin
- 1963: Benjamin Bratt, US-American actor
- 1963: Jeff Carson, US-American Country singer
- 1964: Heike Drechsler, German light athlete and Olympiasiegerin
- 1967: Donovan Bailey, Canadian athlete
- 1967: Miranda Otto, Australian actress
- 1969: Henning citizen, German football player
- 1969: Michelle Smith, Irish swimmer
- 1971: Paul van Dyk, German DJ and musician
- 1972: Julia Klöckner, German politician
- 1973: Kristie Boogert, Netherlands Tennisspielerin
- 1981: Reanna Solomon, Nauruan Gewichtheberin
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died
- ,705: Wu Zetian, former empress Chinas
- ,999: Adelheid of Burgund, the holy one, empress of the holy Roman realm of German nation
- 1515: Alfonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese military, politician and sailor
- 1687: William Petty, British physicist and economist
- 1751: Leopold II. Maximilian, prince of notion Dessau
- 1779: Go-Momozono, 118. Emperor of Japan
- 1847: Alexej Wenezianow, Russian painter
- 1859: William Grimm, German linguist and fairy tale collecting tank
- 1871: Willibald Alexis, German writer
- 1873: Nino Bixio, Italian freedom fighter
- 1878: Karl Gutzkow, German writer and publisher
- 1878: Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Hartmann, German Industrieller
- 1921: Camille Saint Saëns, French pianist and composer
- 1922: EliezerBen Jehuda, language researcher, developer of the Iwrit
- 1940: Eugène Dubois, Netherlands physician and Anthropologe
- 1942: Selma Meerbaum Eisinger, German Dichterin
- 1965: William Somerset Maugham, British writer
- 1966: Harsh ore Carpenter, German sports journalist
- 1973: Franz Xaver drove, German painter
- 1982: Colin Chapman, British racing car technical designer
- 1989: Lee van Cleef, US-amerikanischer actor
- 1989: OSCAR Galvez, Argentine running driver
- 1989: Silvana Mangano, Italian actress
- 1989: Gianni Poggi,Italian tenor
- 1998: Franz K. Opitz, Swiss painter, photographer, poet, musician and author
- 2001: Stefan Heym, German writer and journalist
- 2001: Stuart Adamson, Scottish musician
- 2003: Aglaja forge, Austrian actress
- 2004: Agnes Martin, US-American artist
- 2004: Yehudit Naot, Israeli politician
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of celebration and anniversaries
- church anniversaries
- Hl. Josef of Nazareth (orthodox)
- day of the reconciliation in South Africa (see battle at the Bloodriver 1838)
see also: Historical anniversaries, Time scale
