{"id":23339,"date":"2023-12-16T04:49:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T23:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23339"},"modified":"2023-12-15T15:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T09:59:40","slug":"history-of-16-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-16-december\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 16 December"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1990 &#8211; Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a leftist priest, was elected president in Haiti&#8217;s first democratic elections.<\/li>\r\n<li>1991 &#8211; The U.N. General Assembly rescinded its 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism by a vote of 111-25.<\/li>\r\n<li>1993 &#8211; The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for negotiations on a comprehensive test ban.<\/li>\r\n<li>1995 &#8211; Many\u00a0U.S.\u00a0government functions were again closed as a temporary finance provision expired and the budget dispute between President Clinton and Republicans in Congress continued.<\/li>\r\n<li>1995 &#8211; NATO launched a military operation in support of the Bosnia peace agreement.<\/li>\r\n<li>1996 &#8211; Britain&#8217;s agriculture minister announced the slaughter of an additional 100,000 cows thought to be at risk of contracting BSE in an effort to persuade the EU to lift its ban on Britain.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0and Britain fired hundreds of missiles on Iraq in response to Saddam Hussein&#8217;s refusal to comply with U.N. weapons inspectors.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; Eric Michelman filed the earliest patent for a scroll wheel for a computer mouse.<\/li>\r\n<li>1999 &#8211; Sigourney Weaver received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/li>\r\n<li>1999 &#8211; Torrential rains and mudslides in Venezuela left thousands of people dead and forced at least 120,000 to leave their homes.<\/li>\r\n<li>2000 &#8211; Researchers announced that information from NASA&#8217;s Galileo spacecraft indicated that Ganymede appeared to have a liquid saltwater ocean beneath a surface of solid ice. Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, is the solar system&#8217;s largest moon. The discovery is considered important since water is a key ingredient for life.<\/li>\r\n<li>2000 &#8211; U.S. President-elect\u00a0George W. Bush\u00a0selected Colin Powell to be the first African-American secretary of state. Powell was sworn in January 20, 2001.<\/li>\r\n<li>2001 &#8211; In Tora Bora, Afghanistan, tribal fighters announced that they had taken the last al-Quaida positions. More than 200 fighters were killed and 25 captured. They also announced that they had found no sign of Osama bin Laden.<\/li>\r\n<li>2001 &#8211; Cuba received the first commercial food shipment from the United States in nearly 40 years. The shipment was sent to help Cuba after Hurrican Michelle hit Cuba on November 4, 2001.<\/li>\r\n<li>2001 &#8211; A British newspaper, The Observer, reported that a notebook had been found at an al-Quaida training camp in southern Afghanistan. The notebook contained a &#8220;blue print&#8221; for a bomb attack on London&#8217;s financial district.<\/li>\r\n<li>2009 &#8211; Astronomers discovered GJ1214b. It was the first-known exoplanet on which water could exist.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>2013\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0bus falls\u00a0from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital\u00a0Manila\u00a0killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.<\/li>\r\n<li>2014 \u2013 Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attack an Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 150 people, 132 of them schoolchildren.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Krysten Ritter, American actress, musician, and model<\/li>\r\n<li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Gareth Williams, Scottish footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Antrel Rolle, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Anna Sedokova, Ukrainian singer, actress and television presenter<\/li>\r\n<li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Stanislav \u0160est\u00e1k, Slovak footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1983\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kelenna Azubuike, American basketball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Frankie Ballard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist<\/li>\r\n<li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Theo James, English actor<\/li>\r\n<li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Stanislav Manolev, Bulgarian footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1985 \u2013\u00a0James Nash, English race car driver<\/li>\r\n<li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Alcides Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Zolt\u00e1n Kov\u00e1cs, Hungarian footballer (d. 2013)<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013\u00a0P\u00e4rt Uusberg, Estonian actor, composer, and conductor.<\/li>\r\n<li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mame Biram Diouf, Senegalese footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Beau Dowler, Australian footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Hallee Hirsh, American actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mats Hummels, German footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Anna Popplewell, English actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1989\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mirei Kiritani, Japanese model, actress, and journalist<\/li>\r\n<li>1991\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Craig Goodwin, Australian footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1992\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ulrikke Eikeri, Norwegian tennis player<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 \u2013\u00a0Anamul Haque, Bangladeshi cricketer<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 \u2013\u00a0Moe Miura, Japanese model, actress, and singer<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 \u2013\u00a0Pietro Perdichizzi, Belgian footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 \u2013\u00a0Tom Rogic, Australian footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1994\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Elliot Lee, English footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 \u2013\u00a0Nicola Murru, Italian footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 \u2013\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Rodr\u00edguez Mart\u00ednez, Spanish footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1996 \u2013 Joel Adams, Australian pop\/soul singer-songwriter<\/li>\r\n<li>1997\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Zara Larsson, Swedish singer and songwriter<\/li>\r\n<li>1998\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mira Antonitsch, Austrian tennis player<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1990 &#8211; Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a leftist priest, was elected president in Haiti&#8217;s first democratic elections. 1991 &#8211; The U.N. 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