It happened on this day, December 16
Events:
1899 – The Italian club AC Milan is founded by the Englishman Herbert Kilpin.
1916 – Russian monk Grigori Rasputin is assassinated by Russian nobles eager to end his influence over the royal family.
1938 – A clash occurs between a trader and a guard of the Kuwait Legislative Council, which results in the dissolution of the Council after several days.
1969 – The British Parliament votes by a large majority in favor of abolishing the death penalty for murder.
1971 – Bahrain declares independence from the United Kingdom, after one hundred and ten years of British occupation.
1988 – Official dialogue begins between the United States and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1991 – Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan from the Soviet Union.
💥 Cancel the United Nations resolution that equated Zionism with racism.
1998 – Operation Desert Fox, launched by the United States and the United Kingdom against Iraq, begins by bombarding sensitive targets and installations with cruise missiles. The operation continued for three days.
2004 – An Islamic website publishes an audio tape of Osama bin Laden praising the bombing of the US consulate in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
2007 – Iraqi security forces regain security of the city of Basra from British forces.
2009 – The Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization decides to extend the mandate of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Legislative Council until presidential and legislative elections are held. The Hamas movement rejects this decision and describes the Central Council as illegitimate.
💥 The Kuwaiti National Assembly renews its confidence in Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah by a majority of 35 deputies against 13 deputies, with a motion of confidence and the abstention of one deputy during an extraordinary session to vote on the request that it is not possible to cooperate with him after his interrogation, which was discussed on December 8.
2012 – The Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus was bombed by MiG aircraft of Syrian regime forces, resulting in the displacement of a significant percentage of the population.
💥 A young Indian woman was beaten and gang raped in Delhi, sparking widespread protests in the country.
2013 – Michelle Bachelet wins the presidency of Chile for a second non-consecutive term.
2014 – Around 132 people were killed in a Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
2017 – Real Madrid wins the Club World Cup
2017 after beating Gremio with a clear goal in the final match.
2018 – Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir meets with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus during a surprise official visit, the first by an Arab president to Syria since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution.
2020 – China’s Chang’e-5 robotic spacecraft returns to Earth after its successful mission to collect material samples from the surface and interior of the Moon.
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Births:
1485 – Catherine of Aragon, wife of Henry VIII of England.
1775 – Jane Austen, English novelist.
1776 – John Wilhelm Reiter, German chemist.
1790 – King Leopold I, king of Belgium.
1863 – George Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher, writer, poet and novelist.
1865 – Hossein Tabatabai Qomi, Iranian jurist.
1866 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian painter.
1882 – Zoltan Kodály, Hungarian musician.
1889 – Musa Kashif Al-Ghita, Iraqi jurist and writer.
1902 – Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet.
1917 – Arthur C. Clarke, English writer.
1928 – Philip K. Dick, American writer.
1929 – Muhammad Salem Ould Addoud, Mauritanian scholar, jurist, linguist and poet.
1952 – Francesco Graziani, Italian footballer and coach.
1963 – Benjamin Bratt, American actor.
1965 – Laila Baqdnes, Syrian actress.
1967 – Miranda Otto, Australian actress.
1972 – Željko Kalac, Australian rules football goalkeeper.
1973 – Ghadeer Al-Sabti, Kuwaiti actress.
1975 – Sameh Hussein, Egyptian actor.
1977 – Sylvain d’Estaing, French footballer.
1984 – Theo James, English actor.
** Kinda Hanna, Syrian actress.
1985 – Rima Al-Fadala, Kuwaiti actress.
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Death:
1192 – Ibn Mujbar, Andalusian poet.
1316 – Mehmed Oljaitu, the eighth sultan of the Ilkhanid kingdom.
1515 – Alfonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese explorer.
1672 – King Jan II, king of Poland.
1774 – François Quenay, French economist.
1916 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk.
(1945–Fumimaro KonoePrime Minister of Japan
1964 – Horace Trent, American physicist.
1965 – Somerset Maugham, English writer.
1989 – Maha Sabry, Egyptian singer.
** Lee Van Cleef, American actor.
1991 – Salah Nazmi, Egyptian actor.
1993 – Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan.
2001 – Muhammad bin Saad Al-Mashaan, Saudi poet and educator of the blind.
2004 – Mikhail Eid, Syrian poet and translator.
2005 – Mahmoud Al-Masadi, Tunisian writer.
2006 – Magda Al-Khatib, Egyptian actress.
2009 – Abdelhadi Boutaleb, Moroccan writer and politician.
2011 – Sheikh Imad Effat, secretary of the Fatwa Committee of the Egyptian House of Fatwa.
2015 – Harry Scott, English boxer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ National holiday in Bahrain.
⏪ Independence Day in Kazakhstan.
⏪ Victory Day Bangladesh. 2006
