Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 16
This is a list of selected December 16 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Battle of the Bulge -
Auditorium of the Army Public School Peshawar
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| ; Independence Day in Kazakhstan (1991) | refimprove section |
| ; Victory Day in Bangladesh and India (1971) | India: refimprove |
| 755 – An Lushan revolted against Tang Chinese Chancellor Yang Guozhong, initiating an eight-year rebellion. | refimprove section |
| 1838 – Great Trek: Over 450 Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius defeated an estimated 10,000 Zulu at the Battle of Blood River in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. | refimprove section |
| 1944 – World War II: The Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany launched its final offensive in the western front, the Battle of the Bulge. | refimprove section |
| 1960 – Two airliners collided in mid-air in heavy clouds over Staten Island, New York City, killing 134 people. | refimprove section |
| 1989 – The Romanian Revolution began as a protest in the city of Timişoara against an attempt by the government to evict dissident priest László Tőkés. | outdated |
| 1998 – The United States and United Kingdom launched a major four-day bombing campaign on Iraqi targets in response to Iraq's failure to comply with several U.N. Security Council resolutions as well as their interference with U.N. Special Commission inspectors. | requires expansion |
| 2014 – Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attacked an Army Public School in Peshawar, killing 145 people, mostly schoolchildren. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1598 – Admiral Yi Sun-sin's Korean navy defeated the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Noryang, the final naval battle of the Imjin War.
- 1689 – The Parliament of England adopted the Bill of Rights, declaring that Englishmen possessed certain positive civil and political rights.
- 1707 – The last recorded eruption of Japan's Mount Fuji released some 800 million m3 of volcanic ash.
- 1761 – Seven Years' War: Russian forces captured Kolberg, Prussia's last port on the Baltic coast, after a four-month siege.
- 1773 – To prevent the unloading of tea that was taxed without their consent under the Tea Act, a group of colonists destroyed it by throwing it into Boston Harbor (pictured).
- 1811 – The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes struck the Midwestern United States and made the Mississippi River appear to run backward.
- 1850 – The Canterbury Pilgrims aboard Randolph and Charlotte Jane arrived to settle Christchurch, New Zealand.
- 1901 – English writer Beatrix Potter privately published 250 copies of The Tale of Peter Rabbit after several publishers' rejections.
- 1914 – First World War: The Imperial German Navy attacked British ports in North Yorkshire, resulting in 592 casualties, many of them civilians, of whom 137 died.
- 1930 – Herman Lamm, "the father of modern bank robbery", killed himself during a botched robbery attempt in Clinton, Indiana, U.S., rather than be captured by police.
- 1971 – Pakistani forces in East Pakistan surrendered, ending both the Indo-Pakistani War and the Bangladesh Liberation War.
- 1986 – Dinmukhamed Kunaev was dismissed from the post of First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, sparking riots throughout the country.
- 1997 – "Dennō Senshi Porygon", an episode of the Japanese television series Pokémon, induced epileptic seizures in 685 children.
- 2012 – A woman in New Delhi was gang-raped on a bus, generating public protests across the country against the Government of India and the Government of Delhi for not providing adequate security for women.
- Born/died: Elizabeth Carter (b. 1717) · Noël Coward (b. 1899) · Deyda Hydara (d. 2004)
Notes
- United States Bill of Rights appears on December 15, so Bill of Rights 1689 should not appear in the same year
- Malmedy massacre appears on December 17, so Battle of the Bulge should not appear in the same year
December 16: National Day in Bahrain; Day of Reconciliation in South Africa
- 1653 – Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England.
- 1893 – Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony (audio featured) premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
- 1918 – Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declared the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, a puppet state created by Soviet Russia to justify the Lithuanian–Soviet War.
- 1938 – Adolf Hitler instituted the Cross of Honour of the German Mother as an order of merit for German mothers.
- 2014 – A hostage crisis in a Lindt chocolate café in Sydney, Australia, came to an end when police stormed the building, killing the perpetrator, but also one of the hostages.
Nathaniel Fiennes (d. 1669) · Stuart Donaldson (b. 1812) · H. D. Kumaraswamy (b. 1959)