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12-16-2010, 05:34 AM
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This Date in History - December 16th
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* 755 An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion during the Tang Dynasty of China.
* 1392 Nanboku-chō: Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu.
* 1431 Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris.
* 1497 Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
* 1575 The 1575 Valdivia earthquake takes place.
* 1598 Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point 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.
* 1653 English Interregnum: The Protectorate Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
* 1689 Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
* 1707 Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
* 1761 Seven Years' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg.
* 1773 American Revolution: Boston Tea Party Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
* 1811 The first two in a series of severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. These three so-called mega-quakes are believed to be an ongoing cataclysmic danger that could reprise the 1811-12 series of 2,000 quakes that affected the lands of what would be eight of today's heartland states of the United States.
* 1826 Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
* 1838 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.
* 1850 History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.
* 1863 American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Army of Tennessee.
* 1864 American Civil War: Franklin-Nashville Campaign Battle of Nashville Major General George H. Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.
* 1893 Antonνn Dvořαk's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, From The New World is given its world premiθre performance at Carnegie Hall.
* 1907 The Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world
* 1914 World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
* 1920 The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
* 1922 President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.
* 1930 Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a posse of 200, following a botched bank robbery in Clinton, Indiana.
* 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.
* 1938 Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother
* 1941 World War II: Japanese forces occupy Miri, Sarawak
* 1942 Holocaust: Porajmos Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.
* 1944 World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
* 1946 Thailand joins the United Nations.
* 1947 William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
* 1949 Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget, later knows as SAAB, is founded in Sweden.
* 1950 U.S. President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight with communist North Korea in the Korean War.
* 1957 Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
* 1960 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.
* 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.
* 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan army brings an end to both conflicts.
* 1971 Independence Day of the Kingdom of Bahrain from British Protectorate status
* 1972 Vietnam War: Henry Kissinger announces that North Vietnam has left private peace negotiations, in Paris.
* 1978 Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $14,000,000 to local banks.
* 1979 Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, having an immediate dramatic effect on the United States.
* 1982 The Federal Reserve announces that the operating capacity of factories has gone down to 67.8%.
* 1985 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.
* 1986 Revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist party, known as Zheltoksan, which becomes the first sign of ethnic strife during Gorbachev's tenure
* 1989 Protests break out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor Lαszlσ Tőkιs.
* 1989 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.
* 1991 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.
* 1991 Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan.
* 1997 An episode of Pokιmon, "Dennō Senshi Porygon", aired in Japan induces seizures in hundreds of Japanese children.
* 1998 Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert Fox The United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq.
* 2003 President George W. Bush signs the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 into law. The law establishes the United States' first national standards for the sending of commercial e-mail and requires the Federal Trade Commission to enforce its provisions.
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This Date in History - December 16th
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* 755 An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion during the Tang Dynasty of China.
* 1392 Nanboku-chō: Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu.
* 1431 Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris.
* 1497 Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
* 1575 The 1575 Valdivia earthquake takes place.
* 1598 Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point 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.
* 1653 English Interregnum: The Protectorate Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
* 1689 Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
* 1707 Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
* 1761 Seven Years' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg.
* 1773 American Revolution: Boston Tea Party Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
* 1811 The first two in a series of severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. These three so-called mega-quakes are believed to be an ongoing cataclysmic danger that could reprise the 1811-12 series of 2,000 quakes that affected the lands of what would be eight of today's heartland states of the United States.
* 1826 Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
* 1838 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.
* 1850 History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.
* 1863 American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Army of Tennessee.
* 1864 American Civil War: Franklin-Nashville Campaign Battle of Nashville Major General George H. Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.
* 1893 Antonνn Dvořαk's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, From The New World is given its world premiθre performance at Carnegie Hall.
* 1907 The Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world
* 1914 World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
* 1920 The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
* 1922 President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.
* 1930 Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a posse of 200, following a botched bank robbery in Clinton, Indiana.
* 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.
* 1938 Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother
* 1941 World War II: Japanese forces occupy Miri, Sarawak
* 1942 Holocaust: Porajmos Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.
* 1944 World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
* 1946 Thailand joins the United Nations.
* 1947 William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
* 1949 Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget, later knows as SAAB, is founded in Sweden.
* 1950 U.S. President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight with communist North Korea in the Korean War.
* 1957 Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
* 1960 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.
* 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.
* 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan army brings an end to both conflicts.
* 1971 Independence Day of the Kingdom of Bahrain from British Protectorate status
* 1972 Vietnam War: Henry Kissinger announces that North Vietnam has left private peace negotiations, in Paris.
* 1978 Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $14,000,000 to local banks.
* 1979 Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, having an immediate dramatic effect on the United States.
* 1982 The Federal Reserve announces that the operating capacity of factories has gone down to 67.8%.
* 1985 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.
* 1986 Revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist party, known as Zheltoksan, which becomes the first sign of ethnic strife during Gorbachev's tenure
* 1989 Protests break out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor Lαszlσ Tőkιs.
* 1989 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.
* 1991 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.
* 1991 Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan.
* 1997 An episode of Pokιmon, "Dennō Senshi Porygon", aired in Japan induces seizures in hundreds of Japanese children.
* 1998 Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert Fox The United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq.
* 2003 President George W. Bush signs the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 into law. The law establishes the United States' first national standards for the sending of commercial e-mail and requires the Federal Trade Commission to enforce its provisions.
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