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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_16" title="December 16">December 16</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Reconciliation" title="Day of Reconciliation">Day of Reconciliation</a></b> in South Africa
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1707" title="1707">1707</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dei_eruption" title="Hōei eruption">The last recorded eruption</a></b> of Japan's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Fuji" title="Mount Fuji">Mount Fuji</a> released some 800 million m<sup>3</sup> (28 billion cu ft) of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_ash" title="Volcanic ash">volcanic ash</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1893" title="1893">1893</a> – Czech composer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%C3%ADn_Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k" title="Antonín Dvořák">Antonín Dvořák</a>'s <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k)" title="Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák)">New World Symphony</a></b></i> <i>(audio featured)</i> premiered at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Hall" title="Carnegie Hall">Carnegie Hall</a> in New York City.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincas_Mickevi%C4%8Dius-Kapsukas" title="Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas">Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas</a> declared the formation of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1918%E2%80%931919)" title="Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (1918–1919)">Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic</a></b>, a puppet state created by Soviet Russia to justify the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian%E2%80%93Soviet_War" title="Lithuanian–Soviet War">Lithuanian–Soviet War</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971" title="1971">1971</a> – The surrender of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistani</a> forces in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka" title="Dhaka">Dacca</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Pakistan" title="East Pakistan">East Pakistan</a>, concluded the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War" title="Bangladesh Liberation War">Bangladesh Liberation War</a></b> and the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1971" title="Indo-Pakistani War of 1971">Indo-Pakistani War</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014" title="2014">2014</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindt_Cafe_siege" title="Lindt Cafe siege">A hostage crisis</a></b> in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindt#Lindt_chocolate_caf%C3%A9s" title="Lindt">Lindt chocolate café</a> in Sydney, Australia, ended with police storming the building, killing the perpetrator and one of the hostages.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haakon_IV" title="Haakon IV">Haakon IV of Norway</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1263); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Rundell" title="Maria Rundell">Maria Rundell</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1828); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Browner" title="Carol Browner">Carol Browner</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1955)</p>
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