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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Oliver Cromwell -
Andries Pretorius
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Day of Reconciliation in South Africa; | stub |
| ; Independence Day in Kazakhstan (1991) | refimprove section, inaccurate section summary |
| 755 – An Lushan revolted against Tang Chinese Chancellor Yang Guozhong, initiating an eight-year rebellion. | refimprove section |
| 1707 – The last recorded eruption of Japan's Mount Fuji released some 800 million m3 of volcanic ash. | Hōei eruption has unreferenced section and is short; Fuji has 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 |
| 1850 – The Canterbury Pilgrims aboard Randolph and Charlotte-Jane arrived to settle Christchurch, New Zealand. | Canterbury Association needs more footnotes; Christchurch has unreferenced section |
| 1971 – Pakistani forces in East Pakistan surrendered, ending both the Indo-Pakistani War and the Bangladesh Liberation War. | Indo-Pakistani War: refimprove section; Bangladesh war: neutrality issues, needs expansion |
| 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. | multiple issues |
| 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 |
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.
- 1653 – Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England.
- 1761 – Seven Years' War: Russian forces captured Kolberg, Prussia's last port on the Baltic coast, after a four-month siege.
- 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.
- 1893 – Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony 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.
- 1930 – Herman Lamm, "the father of modern bank robbery", was shot and killed during a botched robbery attempt in Clinton, Indiana, US.
- 1944 – World War II: The Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany launched its final offensive in the western front, the Battle of the Bulge.
- 1986 – Dinmukhamed Konayev was dismissed from the post of First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, sparking riots throughout the country.
- 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.
Notes
- Malmedy massacre appears on December 17, so Battle of the Bulge should not appear in the same year
December 16: Kingdom Day in Aruba, Curaçao, the Netherlands, and Sint Maarten (1954); National Day in Bahrain; Victory Day in Bangladesh and India (1971)
- 1689 – The Parliament of England adopted the Bill of Rights, declaring that Englishmen possessed certain positive civil and political rights.
- 1773 – To prevent the unloading of tea that was taxed without their consent under the Tea Act, a group of colonists destroyed it (pictured) by throwing it into Boston Harbor.
- 1938 – Adolf Hitler instituted the Cross of Honour of the German Mother as an order of merit for Imperial German women.
- 1960 – Two airliners collided in mid-air in heavy clouds over Staten Island, New York City, killing 134 people.
- 1997 – "Dennō Senshi Porygon", an episode of the Japanese television series Pokémon, induced epileptic seizures in 685 children.