About December 16
December 16, 2024 is the 351st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 15 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 44 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 16
- 755 –An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion during the Tang Dynasty of China.
- 1575 –The 1575 Valdivia earthquake takes place.
- 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.
- 1826 –Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1938 –Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother
- 1946 –Thailand joins the United Nations.
- 1947 –William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
- 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.
- 1972 –Vietnam War: Henry Kissinger announces that North Vietnam has left private peace negotiations, in Paris.
- 1979 –Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, having an immediate dramatic effect on the United States.
- 1989 –Protests break out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.
- 1991 –Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan.
- 1998 –Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert Fox – The United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq.
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