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[16] 1989 – Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés. 2011 – Zhanaozen massacre: Violent protests by oil workers take place in Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan, leading to 16 people dead and 100 injured by the security forces. [17]
December 16: Day of Reconciliation in South Africa Boston Tea Party 1598 – Led by Admiral Yi Sun-sin , the Korean navy were victorious at Battle of Noryang , ending the Japanese invasions of Korea .
Victory Day (Bengali: বিজয় দিবস Bijôẏ Dibôs) is a national holiday in Bangladesh celebrated on 16 December to commemorate the defeat of the Pakistan Armed Forces in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 and the Independence of Bangladesh.
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For Afrikaners, 16 December was commemorated as the Day of the Vow, [1] also known as Day of the Covenant or Dingaansdag (Dingaan's Day). [19] The Day of the Vow was a religious holiday commemorating the Voortrekker victory over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838, [2] and is still celebrated by some Afrikaners. [20]
Vol CX. No. 37,583. Saturday 17 December 1960. Park Slope Plane Crash, City Room (The New York Times local news blog), Sunday, December 12–Thursday, December 16, 2010 – A series of articles about the aviation disaster. CNN photo gallery of the crash; Deadly Brooklyn Plane Crash, 1960 – slideshow by Life magazine
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.
December 16: Mawlid begins at sunset (Shia Islam, 2016); National Day in Bahrain; Victory Day in Bangladesh and India ; Day of Reconciliation in South Africa New World Symphony, 1st movement 1761 – Seven Years' War : Russian forces captured Kolberg , Prussia's last port on the Baltic coast , after a four-month siege .