December 16th, 2018

Born on December 16th, 2018

Weekday

Sunday

December 16th, 2018 was a Sunday.

Age

People born on December 16th, 2018 will turn 8 this year (2026), in exactly 182 days .

Zodiac

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Sagittarius (The Centaur/Archer)

November 23rd, 2018 - December 21st, 2018

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 2,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 260 days, exactly on March 4th, 2027, people who were born on December 16th, 2018 will be 3,000 days old!

2,740 Days

391 Weeks

90 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

Born on December 16th, 2018: When to retire?

Birth

67 80

Childhood & Education 20 Years

Work 47 Years

Retirement 13 Years

Pension starts in 60 years

Since you are still in education and expected to start to work in 13 years, you would be able to retire 2086 (in 60 years) at the age of 67.

What happened on December 16th?

December 16th, 2014

A hostage crisis in a Lindt chocolate café in Sydney, Australia, ended with police storming the building, killing the perpetrator and one of the hostages.

December 16th, 2012

A woman was gang-raped and fatally assaulted on a bus in Delhi, generating protests across India against inadequate security for women.

December 16th, 1997

"Dennō Senshi Porygon", an episode of the Japanese television series Pokémon, induced epileptic seizures in 685 children.

December 16th, 1971

The surrender of Pakistani forces in Dacca, East Pakistan, concluded the Bangladesh Liberation War and the India-Pakistan War.

December 16th, 1942

World War II: Americans engaged Imperial Japanese forces at the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse in the hills near the Matanikau River area on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign.

December 16th, 1938

Adolf Hitler instituted the Cross of Honour of the German Mother, an order of merit for German mothers with at least four children.

December 16th, 1930

German-American gangster Herman Lamm killed himself during a botched robbery attempt in Clinton, Indiana, to avoid being captured by police.

December 16th, 1922

Gabriel Narutowicz (pictured), the first president of Poland, was assassinated only five days after having taken office.

December 16th, 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.

December 16th, 1914

First World War: The Imperial German Navy attacked ports in northern England, resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties.

December 16th, 1901

English writer Beatrix Potter privately published 250 copies of The Tale of Peter Rabbit (illustration shown) after several publishers' rejections.

December 16th, 1893

Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony (audio featured) premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

December 16th, 1850

Settlers of the Canterbury Association aboard Randolph and Charlotte Jane arrived to establish a colony at Christchurch, New Zealand.

December 16th, 1811

The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes struck the Midwestern United States and made the Mississippi River appear to run backward.

December 16th, 1773

American Revolution: A group of colonists threw chests of tea into Boston Harbor (pictured) to protest British taxation without representation.

Public holidays on December 16th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, The beginning of the nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24, celebrating the trials which Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place to stay where Jesus could be born) which are celebrated on December 16th.

Day of Reconciliation, formerly celebrated as Day of the Vow by the Afrikaners (South Africa)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Reconciliation

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Kazakhstan from the Soviet Union in 1991.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(Kazakhstan)

National Day, celebrates the withdrawal of United Kingdom from Bahrain, making Bahrain an independent emirate in 1971.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_day

National Sports Day (Thailand)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Thailand

The first day of Las Posadas (Mexico, Latin America)

The beginning of the nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24, celebrating the trials which Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place to stay where Jesus could be born (Hispanidad)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Posadas