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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 3, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,905,120 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 ‘trihectapentacontahenagon’ 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 44 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 4,378 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 16 Historical Events
1653 –
English Interregnum: The Protectorate – Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1811 –
The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. These four 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.
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
1944 –
World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
1957 –
Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
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.
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.
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.
Who were born on December 16?
1888 –
Alphonse Juin, marshal of France (d. 1967)
1901 –
Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (d. 1978)
1945 –
Yukio Hattori, Japanese television commentator
1948 –
Christopher Biggins, English actor
1950 –
Claudia Cohen, American gossip columnist and socialite (d. 2007)
1979 –
Trevor Immelman, South African golfer
1981 –
Krysten Ritter, American actress
1982 –
Justin Mentell, American artist and actor (d. 2010)
1987 –
Beau Dowler, Australian rules footballer
1990 –
Julito McCullum, American actor
Who died on December 16?
1470 –
John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425)
1783 –
Johann A. Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
1783 –
Sir William James, British naval commander (b. 1720)
1945 –
Fumimaro Konoye, Japanese politician (b. 1891)
1945 –
Giovanni Agnelli, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1866)
1968 –
General Muhammad Suheimat, Jordanian military commander and statesman (b.1916)
1977 –
Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (b. 1934)
1982 –
Colin Chapman, English engineer and automobile manufacturer (b. 1928)
1996 –
Quentin Bell, English art historian (b. 1910)
1998 –
William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922)
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