The 16t o December is the 350t day o the year (351t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 15 days bidin.
Events
1497 : Fish River, Sooth Africae 1773 : Boston Tea Pairty1431 - Henry VI o Ingland is crouned King o Fraunce .1497 - Vasco da Gama sails past Sooth Africae 's Fish River on his voyage tae Indie .1575 - A major yirdquauk hits Valdivia in present-day Chile .1773 - Boston Tea Pairty: Members o the "Sons o Liberty" throw hundreds o crates o tea intae the river in Boston , Massachusetts in protest at the Tea Act.1830 - Uruguay adopts its current banner.1835 - A fire in Manhattan destroys 635 biggins.1899 - Italian fitbaa club A.C. Milan is foondit.1900 - German ship "Gneisenau" sinks in a storm aff Malaga , Spain , killin 40 fowk.1920 - A yirdquauk in Cheenae 's Gansu province kills 200,000 fowk.1922 - Pols Preses Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinatit.1944 - Warld War II : German forces stairt the Ardennes offensive in Belgium .1946 - Thailand jyns the Unitit Naitions .1965 - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV becomes King o Tonga .1965 - The Pioneer 6 space probe is launched.1971 - Bahrain gains unthirldom.1971 - Bangladesh 's War o Unthirldom ends.1991 - Egyptian ferry "Salem Express" crashes intae a reef an sinks, killin 700 fowk.1991 - Kazakhstan gains unthirldom frae the Soviet Union .2012 - A 23-year-old woman is gang-raped in Delhi , Indie , provokin debate aroond the warld ower the treatment o weemen in Indie .2014 - Members o the Pakistani Taliban carry oot a massacre at an airmy schuil in Peshawar , Pakistan , killin a total o 141 fowk, maist o them bairns.2020 - The Unitit States accuses Swisserland an Vietnam o currency manipulation.
Births
Wassily Kandinsky 1485 - Catherine o Aragon , Spaingie-born Queen Consort o Ingland (d. 1536 )1724 - William Douglas, 4t Duke o Queensberry , Scots nobleman (d. 1810 )1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven , German componer (d. 1827 )1775 - Jane Austen , Inglis writer (d. 1817 )1790 - Leopold I o Belgium (d. 1865 )1850 - Joseph Taylor , Scots fitbawer (d. 1888 )1866 - Wassily Kandinsky , Roushie penter (d. 1944 )1868 - William Brown Macdougall , Scots airtist an illustrator (d. 1936 )1882 - Zoltán Kodály , Hungarian componer, linguist an componer (d. 1967 )1888 - Alexander I o Yugoslavie (d. 1934 )1899 - Noël Coward , Inglis componer, writer an actor (d. 1973 )1901 - Margaret Mead , American anthropologist (d. 1978 )1917 - Arthur C. Clarke , Inglis writer (d. 2008 )1923 - Ernst Florian Winter , Austrick-American historian (d. 2014 )1928 - Philip K. Dick , American writer (d. 1982 )1938 - Liv Ullmann , Norse actress1946 - Benny Andersson , Swadish muisicker (ABBA )1948 - Pat Quinn , American politeecian1956 - Tommy Burns , Scots fitbawer (d. 2008 )1963 - Benjamin Bratt , American actor1969 - Kevin McGowne , Scots fitbawer1969 - Adam Riess , American astropheesicist1971 - Scott Booth , Scots fitbawer1973 - Mariza , Portuguese fado sangster1988 - Mats Hummels , German fitbawer1992 - Tom Rogic , Australie fitbawer1995 - Ryan Gauld , Scots fitbawer1997 - Zara Larsson , Swadish sangster
Daiths
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