Holidays 16 December 2018 - Sunday

Events of the day:

the world's first established December 16, 1947 bipolar transistor

1773 - "Boston Tea Party" - American colonists held a protest against taxes on tea made Britain (photo)

year 1899 - based Italian football club "Milan" (photo)

1946 - in Paris, French fashion designer Christian Dior founded his own fashion house "Christian Dior" (photo)

1997 - in Japan after the show the 38th series "Pokemon" with seizures hospitalized 685 children, this series has been banned for showing in other countries (photo)

Birthday party:

On this day were born:

Jane Austen

Wassily Kandinsky

Anton Denikin

Max Linder

Nikolai Vatutin

Georgy Sviridov

Arthur C. Clarke

Rodion Shchedrin

Svetlana Druzhinin

Benny Andersson

Yuri Nikolaev

Anfisa Reztsova

On this day, died:

Y Hou

Francois Quesnay

Antoine de Fourcroy

Wilhelm Grimm

Pavel Tretyakov

Camille Saint-Saëns

Somerset Maugham

Colin Chapman

Grigory Alexandrov

Yegor Gaidar

15 December 2018

17 December 2018