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December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 15 days remaining.

Events:

1653 - Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1689 - The English Parliament adopts the Bill of Rights.
1773 - Boston Tea Party
1838 - Boers defeat Zulu troops led by Dingaan.
1850 - The first four ships arrive at Lyttleton to settle Christchurch, New Zealand.
1864 - Union troops led by general George Thomas defeat Confederate troops in the Battle of Nashville.
1893 - World premiere of Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony".
1915 - Albert Einstein publishes the general theory of relativity.
1922 - Poland's President Gabriel Narutowicz assassinated.
1969 - The British House of Commons votes to abolish the death penalty.
1971 - Bangladesh declares independence from Pakistan.
1990 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected president of Haiti.
1998 - American and British troops bomb Iraqi targets after Iraq obstructs UN weapons inspectors.
1999 - Mud streams kill thousands in Venezuela.
2000 - NASA announces that there is an ocean beneath Jupiter's moon Ganymedes's icy surface.

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 *[[1775]] - [[Jane Austen]], writer
 *[[1776]] - [[Johann Wilhelm Ritter]], physicist (+ [[1810]])
-*[[1790]] - [[Leopold I of Belgium|Leopold I]], first king of Belgium (+ [[1865]])
+*[[1790]] - [[Leopold I of Belgium]]
 *[[1863]] - [[George Santayana]], philosopher, poet
 *[[1882]] - [[Walther Meissner]], physicist