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Notable anniversaries in history for today: December 16
- 250th: 1774 - François Quesnay French personal physician of Louis XIV, dies at age 80.
- 200th: 1824 - Great North Holland Canal opens.
- 80th: 1944 - (0530 hours) Adolf Hitler launches Operation Autumn Mist (Herbstnebel). A short (30 minutes) artillery burst commences prior to troop movement. A German force of 20-22 divisions attacks along a 60-mile front from Monschau to Echternach through the Ardennes, in a surprise attack on the West. 200,000 German tank and infantry troops take part in the offensive versus 83,000 along the American line.
- 80th: 1944 - A German V-2 rocket hits the Rex Theatre in Antwerp, Belgium, killing 492-567, the worst missile attack of the war.
- 80th: 1944 - US 2nd Infantry division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" Wahlerscheid.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Joslyn Y Hoyte-Smith in Barbados; 4X400 metre hurdler (Olympics-bronze-1980).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Billy Ripken in Havre de Grace, Maryland, USA; second baseman (Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Evelyn Conley in San Francisco, California, USA; WPVA volleyball player (US Open-7th-1989).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Gail Harris in Dewsbury, England; actress (Virtual Desire).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Heike Drechsler in Gera, German Democratic Republic; sprinter (1988 world record).
- 60th: 1964 - US performs nuclear test in the Pacific Ocean.
- 50th: 1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 50th: 1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk.
- 30th: 1994 - New Line releases the film Dumb and Dumber to theaters.
- 20th: 2004 - The House of Lords rules that the British Government breaches human rights legislation by detaining without trial foreign nationals suspected of being terrorists.
- 20th: 2004 - Information technology security company Symantec Corp signs a definitive agreement to merge with Veritas Software Corp, valued at $13.5 billion, in an all-stock transaction.
- 15th: 2009 - Astronomers discover GJ1214b, the first-known exoplanet on which water could exist.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Roy E. Disney; American businessman (Walt Disney Company) (born 1930).
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