eso ha pasado un 16 Diciembre

1773 : Boston Tea Party


On December 16, 1773, in Boston harbor, American colonists disguised as Indians board British tea ships Dartmouth, Eleanor, and Beaver and throw their cargo overboard. They wanted to protest against the British monopoly on the tea trade in America. English repression to this act established the foundation for the American resistance.

1838 : Battle of Blood River


The Battle of Red River happened not far from the river Ncome in the KwaZulu Natal between Zulus and Voortrekkers. Between 10,000 and 20,000 Zulu warriors attacked 470 Voortrekkers. The battle lasted only a short time because of the superiority of weapons of the Voortrekkers.
More than 3,000 Zulu warriors were killed and the river became red with their blood.

1920 : Earthquake in China


On December 16, 1920, an earthquake of magnitude 8.5 on the Richter scale hit the province of Gansu in China. More than 200,000 people were killed.

1944 : Beginning of the Battle of the Bulge


The German army under the command of Field Marshal Rundstedt launched an offensive on the Ardennes on the 16 December 1944 in order to recapture Antwerp and disperse the British and American armies. Allied forces are taken by surprise and disorientation is compounded by the very bad weather.

Actualidad del día : 16 Diciembre

Independance Day in Kazakhstan
Victory Day in Bangladesh and India
Commemoration of the surrender of the Pakistani army of 1971 which ended the War of Liberation of Bangladesh and the Indo-Pakistani conflict that has resulted.
This day is therefore also the independence day of Bangladesh.

Cita del día : 16 Diciembre

George Moore, Romancier et homme de lettres irlandais
We travel around the world in search of something and goes home to find it.

Cumpleaños : 16 Diciembre

Catherine d'Aragon, Reina de Inglaterra (1485)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Compositor y pianista (1770)
Jane Austen, Escritora inglesa (1775)
Alphonse Juin, Mariscal de Francia (1888)
Arthur Charles Clarke, English writer (1917)
Pierre Delanoë, French lyricist (1918)
Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress and director (1938)
Ben Cross, Inglés actor (1947)
Shane Black, American director and screenwriter (1961)
Jon Tenney, Actor (1961)
Liane Foly, French singer (1962)
Maruschka Detmers, Actriz (1962)
Benjamin Bratt, Actor (1963)
Heike Drechsler, Atleta (1964)
Donovan Bailey, Atleta (1967)

Nos han dejado un 16 Diciembre

Wilhelm Grimm, German writer (1859)
Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (1897)
Camille Saint-Saëns, Compositor (1921)
Thelma Todd, Actriz (1935)
W. Somerset Maugham, Escritor (1965)
Silvana Mangano, Actriz (1989)
Lee Van Cleef, Actor (1989)
Tanaka Kakuei, Primer Ministro japonés (1993)
Mahmoud Messaâdi, Tunisian writer and thinker (2004)
Ted Abernathy, Jugador de béisbol (2004)
John Spencer, Actor (2005)
Roy Edward Disney, US producer (2009)
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