16 Azar 1401

Events

• 1922 (104 years ago) The Parliament of Northern Ireland votes to remain a part of the United Kingdom and not unify with Southern Ireland.
• 1932 (94 years ago) German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
• 1962 (64 years ago) Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
• 1971 (55 years ago) Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.
• 1995 (31 years ago) The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
• 2015 (11 years ago) The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.
• 2025 (a year ago) An attempted coup takes place in Benin, but is thwarted, and order restored.

Births

• 1598 (428 years ago) Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor and painter (died 1680)
• 1823 (203 years ago) Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (died 1891)
• 1863 (163 years ago) Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and conductor (died 1945)
• 1873 (153 years ago) Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (died 1947)
• 1915 (111 years ago) Eli Wallach, American actor (died 2014)
• 1924 (102 years ago) Mário Soares, Portuguese historian, lawyer, and politician, 17th President of Portugal (died 2017)
• 1980 (46 years ago) John Terry, English footballer
• 1984 (42 years ago) Robert Kubica, Polish race car driver

Deaths

• 43 BC Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, and politician (born 106 BC)
• 283 (1743 years ago) Eutychian, pope of the Catholic Church
• 983 (1043 years ago) Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 955)
• 1254 (772 years ago) Innocent IV, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1195)
• 1906 (120 years ago) Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1833)
• 1975 (51 years ago) Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright (born 1897)
• 1985 (41 years ago) Robert Graves, English poet, novelist, critic (born 1895)
• 1993 (33 years ago) Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st President of Ivory Coast (born 1905)

All 361 events, births and deaths of December 7