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December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) ... [12] 1912 – First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Syrian civil war. Fall of the Assad regime. Syrian mass graves. A recently created mass grave containing the bodies of 17 executed Syrian Army soldiers is discovered in the Syrian Desert near Deir ez-Zor.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Russo-Ukrainian War. 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. 2022 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure. Russian forces launch a barrage of at least 76 missiles across Ukraine, damaging at least nine power stations and killing at least three civilians, with many more civilians being injured.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Syrian civil war. Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war, Israel's role in the Syrian civil war. Israeli warplanes launch overnight airstrikes in southern Syria, with missiles originating from the Golan Heights, killing a soldier and causing some material damage, according to a Syrian military official.
Armed conflicts and attacks. War in Afghanistan. Gunmen attack a security checkpoint in Puli Khumri, Baghlan Province, killing 13 police officers. An armoured personnel carrier and several police vehicles are also destroyed during the attack, which Afghan officials blame on the Taliban.
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. [2] The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts.
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October 12 – Hipólito Yrigoyen is elected President of Argentina. October 14 – Perm State University is founded in Russia. October 16 – Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth control clinic, a forerunner of Planned Parenthood. October 20 – Black Friday (1916): A violent and deadly storm hits Lake Erie in the United States.