What are the important events that happened on December 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 16: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 16 is the 350th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 15 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 3, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,430,720 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectapentacontagon’ day.
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Sagittarius is the zodiac 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 63 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,743 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 16 Historical Events
- 1575 –The 1575 Valdivia earthquake takes place.
- 1707 –Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
- 1850 –History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.
- 1918 –Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.
- 1922 –President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.
- 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.
- 1978 –Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $14,000,000 to local banks.
- 1989 –Protests break out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.
- 1997 –An episode of Pokémon, “Dennō Senshi Porygon”, aired in Japan induces seizures in 685 Japanese children.
Who were born on December 16?
- 1863 –George Santayana, Spanish philosopher and writer (d. 1952)
- 1869 –Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1952)
- 1883 –Max Linder, French pioneer of silent film (d. 1925)
- 1913 –George Ignatieff, Russian-born Canadian diplomat (d. 1989)
- 1943 –Steven Bochco, American television producer and writer
- 1964 –Billy Ripken, American baseball player
- 1964 –Gail Harris, English actress
- 1969 –Florencia Lozano, American actress
- 1974 –Earl C. Poitier, American actor
- 1985 –Amanda Setton, American actor
Who died on December 16?
- 999 –Saint Adelaide of Italy (b. 931)
- 1470 –John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425)
- 1669 –Nathaniel Fiennes, English politician (b. c. 1608)
- 1751 –Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (b. 1700)
- 1968 –General Muhammad Suheimat, Jordanian military commander and statesman (b.1916)
- 1993 –Charizma, American Hip-Hop MC (b. 1973)
- 1995 –Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director (b. 1939)
- 2004 –Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (b. 1933)
- 2005 –John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946)
- 2011 –Dan Frazer, American actor (b. 1921)
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