| Date | Holiday | Category | Tags |
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National Chocolate Covered Anything Day December 16 | ||
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Barbie And Barney Backlash Day December 16 | ||
Also on December 16
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Day of Reconciliation (ZA) · Victory Day (BD) · বিজয় দিবস (BD)
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2014 — Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attacked an Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 145 people, mostly schoolchildren. ↗
- 2013 — A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured. ↗
- 1991 — Kazakhstan declares independence from the Soviet Union. ↗
- 1989 — Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian... ↗
- 1989 — U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Smith Vance is assassinated by a mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody, Jr. ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1998 — Mira Antonitsch, Austrian tennis player
- 1997 — Zara Larsson, Swedish singer and songwriter
- 1994 — Elliot Lee, English footballer
- 1994 — Nicola Murru, Italian footballer
- 1994 — José Rodríguez Martínez, Spanish footballer