What happend on 16th December

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1971

The Pakistan Army surrenders, ending the Liberation War of Bangladesh and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 simultaneously.

1970

Shipworkers in Gdańsk, Poland clash with government police and the seeds of the Solidarity movement are sown.

1966

Mao's Little Red Book is published in Beijing.

1963

Park Chung-Hee is sworn in as South Korea's fifth president.

1960

A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over New York City, killing 134.

1958

A fire at a store in Bogotá, Colombia kills 83 people.

1946

Léon Blum becomes Prime Minister of France.

1944

World War II: A V-2 rocket hits the Rex Cinema in Antwerp killing 567 people.

1944

World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins.

1942

SS Chief Heinrich Himmler orders that the Roma (gypsy) people be sent to Auschwitz for extermination.