December 16: National Day in Bahrain; Victory Day in Bangladesh and India (1971)
Oliver Cromwell
- 1598 – Admiral Yi Sun-sin's Korean navy defeated the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Noryang, the final naval battle of the Imjin War.
- 1653 – Oliver Cromwell (pictured) became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England.
- 1918 – Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declared the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, a puppet state created by Soviet Russia to justify the Lithuanian–Soviet War.
- 1930 – Herman Lamm, "the father of modern bank robbery", killed himself during a botched robbery attempt in Clinton, Indiana, US, rather than be captured by police.
- 2012 – A woman in New Delhi was gang-raped on a bus, generating public protests across the country against the Government of India and the Government of Delhi for not providing adequate security for women.
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