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Events on December 16

• 1773 The Sons of Liberty, citizens of Boston disguised as Indians, board ships of the English East India Company and destroy three shipments of tea. This Boston Tea Party and further similar actions against British tea imports lead to the American Revolutionary War two years later.
• 1812 The defeated remnants of Napoleon's Grande Armée cross the Memel River and reach East Prussia. Only 18,000 of the former 400,000 soldiers have survived the Russian campaign and the flight from the advancing Russian units.
• 1893 The world premiere of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" in E minor, Op. 95, takes place at Carnegie Hall in New York.
• 1944 The Ardennes Offensive begins on the Western Front during World War II, with which the German Wehrmacht unsuccessfully attempts to push back the Allied forces. At the same time, Operation Greif begins, which is intended to create confusion behind the American lines.
• 1960 With the entry into force of the corresponding law, Deutschlandfunk (as successor to the German long-wave broadcaster) and Deutsche Welle are established as independent broadcasting institutions under federal law.
• 1986 The first episode of the crime series Großstadtrevier is broadcast.
• 1988 In Schwandorf, a locally well-known Nazi sets fire to a house occupied mainly by Turks for racist reasons. Four people lose their lives in the arson attack.
• 2000 The final broadcast of the ZDF Hit Parade is aired.
• 2007 AC Milan wins the FIFA Club World Cup, with the 2007 Copa Libertadores winners, Boca Juniors, being defeated 4:2 in Yokohama.
• 2015 The final broadcast of the television show TV total with Stefan Raab as presenter is aired.
• 2020 As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Germany's second lockdown begins.
• 2024 Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz loses the confidence vote in the German Bundestag.

Born on December 16

• 1866 Wassily Kandinsky, Russian painter, graphic artist and art theorist
• 1867 Arthur Schloßmann, German pediatrician and founder of the first infant clinic
• 1882 Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer
• 1901 Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and ethnologist
• 1961 Ulrike Krumbiegel, German actress
• 1971 Paul van Dyk, German DJ and musician
• 1972 Julia Klöckner, German politician
• 1981 Krysten Ritter, American actress
• 1983 Dominik Klein, German handball player
• 1992 Lieke Martens, Dutch footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „16. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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