December 16, 2010
Nacimientos:
| 1485 | Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII’s first wife |
| 1775 | Jane Austen, English novelist; ‘Pride And Prejudice’ & ‘Sense & Sensibility’ |
| 1857 | Edward Emerson Barnard, US astronomer, discoverer of Barnard’s star |
| 1882 | Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian composer |
| 1882 | Sir Jack Hobbs, Renowned cricketer; the first of his sport to be Knighted |
| 1899 | Sir Noel Coward, Renowned playwright, actor, producer and director |
| 1946 | Benny Andersson, Singer/songwriter with the Pop group ‘Abba’ |
| 1953 | Stephanie Lawrence, Actress and singer, made famous by ‘Evita’ |
Acontecimientos:
| 1653 | Oliver Cromwell became ‘Lord protector of England’ |
| 1773 | ‘The Boston Tea Party’ took place when the ‘Sons of Liberty’ dumped 18,000 worth of tea in the sea |
| 1809 | The marriage between Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine was disolved after thirteen years |
| 1925 | Construction of the Mersey road tunnel began, eventually opening almost ten years later in 1934 |
| 1929 | Britains first airship, the R101, flew on its first trials |
| 1952 | Lord Mountbatten was appointed as chief of Allied forces in the Mediterranean, by NATO |
| 1965 | Somerset Maugham the English novelist died in Nice, France, at the age of 91 |
