16. dæg þæs Æfterran Geola

**16 Æfterra Gēola** is se siextēoða dæg þæs gēares on þǣre Gregoriscan gerīmbēc. Heonan sind 349 belīfendra daga (350 in hlīepgēarum).

## Belimpas
* 27 BC - Se Romanisca Senatus giefþ Gaius Octauiane þone tītule Augustus.
* 1362 - Micel storm tide in þǣm Norþsǣ forgrindeð þa Þēodisc īeg Strand and Rungholt burg.
* 1412 - Medici-ingas made official bankers þæs Papstōle. 
* 1456 - Painter Filippo Lippi elopes with Lucrezia Buti, a young nun from the convent of Saint Margherita.
* 1492 - Man presents þæt forma grammar of a modern language, on Spēonisc Isabelle cwēne.
* 1547 - Ivan se Gryrelic is swā Tsar Russlandes gebēagod.
* 1556 - Philip II wierþ cyning Spēonlandes.
* 1572 - Se Heretoga of Norþfolc is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in Englalande.
* 1581 - Englisc Witenagemot outlaws Roman Catholicism.
* 1605 - Se ǣrost bōc *[[Don Quixote]]*, *El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha* be Miguel de Cervantes, is in Madrid, Spēonland ābenþ.
* 1761 - Brittisc capture Pondicherry, Indea fram þǣm Francum.
* 1777 - Uermont declares its independence fram Nīwan Eoferwīce.
* 1780 - American Revolution: Sct. Uincent Næss Sǣfeoht.
* 1795 - Francas occupy Utrecht, Niðerland.
* 1809 - Peninsular War: Þæt Brittiscmenn defeat the Frencisc þrēat æt þǣm La Coruña Beadwe.
* 1847 - John C. Fremont is appointed þæs nīwan California-Landscipes Gereca.
* 1883 - The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the Geānlǣhtan Rīcu Civil service, is passed.
* 1900 - Se Geānlǣhtan Rīca Senatus accepts the Anglo-Þēodisc treaty of 1899 hwǣrin renounced þæt Geānlǣhte Cynerīce his claims to þāra Samoan Īege.
* 1909 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic Sūþende þæs eaxe.
* 1917 - Þēodisc Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico, proposing a Þēodisc-Mexican alliance wiþ þāra Geānlǣhtan Rīca
* 1919 - Temperance movement: The 18th Amendment, authorizing Prohibition, was passed by the Congress of the United States.  It went into effect one year later, on January 16th, 1920.
* 1938 - Benny Goodman plays Carnegie Hall.
* 1945 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
* 1956 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, foresittend Ægyptes, vows to reconquer Palestine.
* 1957 - The Cavern Club opens in Liferpōl.
* 1961 - Mickey Mantle becomes the highest paid baseball player by signing a $75,000 contract.
* 1964 - The first musical version of Hello, Dolly! opens at New York City's St. James Theatre.
* 1966 - The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City.
* 1969 - Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
* 1970 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.  
* 1970 - Curt Flood files suit, stating that major league baseball had violated the American anti-trust laws.
* 1977 - The Marx Gebrōþer were inducted into the Motion Picture Hall of Fame.
* 1979 - Se Perse cyning flees Persealande mid his cynne and relocates tō Ægypte.  
* 1988 - Sports commentator Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder is fired by CBS a day after publicly stating that African Americans had been bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery.
* 1991 - Gulfgūþ: **[[Operation Desert Storm]]** onginnþ. 
* 1991 - US serial killer Aileen Wuornos confesses to the murders of six men.
* 1992 - El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City that ends a 12-year ingefeoht that claimed at least 75,000.
* 1997 - Ennis Cosby, the only son of actor Bill Cosby, is killed by a gunman while changing a flat tire in Los Angeles, California.
* 1998 - NASA announces that John Glenn will return to space when Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' blasts off in Winterfylleþ 1998.
* 2000 - In Sacramento, California a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the state capitol building killing the driver.  
* 2001 - Congolisc foresittend Laurent-Dēsirē Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
* 2002 - A student shoots 6 people at the Appalachian School of Law. Three of those shot die.  
* 2002  - John Ashcroft announces that so-called "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh would be tried in þǣm Geānlǣhtan Rīcum. 
* 2002 - The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban.  
* 2003 - Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' takes off for mission STS-107 which will be its final one. *Columbia* disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry.
* 2004 - Þæt Crīstesmæsse Īeg Registry shuts down Goatse.cx.

## Byrda
* 1821 - John C. Breckenridge, Kentucky Senator 1861-1861, Confederate General (d. 1875)
* 1838 - Franz Brentano, Þēodisc philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
* 1874 - Robert W. Service, poet (d. 1958)
* 1881 - Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, radio pioneer
* 1898 - Margaret Booth, film editor (d. 2002)
* 1902 - Eric Liddell, Scottisc runner (d. 1945)
* 1909 - Ethel Merman, singer, actress (d. 1984)
* 1910 - Dizzy Dean, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1974)
* 1912 - Franz Tumler, Ēastrīcisc narrator (d. 1998)
* 1918 - Stirling Silliphant, wrītere, producer (d. 1996)
* 1922 - Ernesto Bonino, Italianisc sangere
* 1924 - Katy Jurado, actress (d. 2002)
* 1928 - William Kennedy, author
* 1931 - Johannes Rau, Foresittend Þēodisclandes
* 1932 - Dian Fossey, zoologist (d. 1985)
* 1934 - Marilyn Horne, Americanisc mezzo-soprano
* 1935 - Udo Lattek, football coach
* 1935 - A.J. Foyt, automobile racer
* 1943 - Brian Ferneyhough, composer
* 1944 - Jim Stafford, sangere
* 1946 - Kabir Bedi, actor
* 1946 - Ronnie Milsap, sangere
* 1946 - Katia Ricciarelli, opera sangere
* 1947 - Laura Schlessinger, psychiatrist, radio talk show host
* 1948 - John Carpenter, director
* 1948 - Dalvanius, Nīwe Sǣland entertainer (d. 2002)
* 1948 - Cliff Thorburn, Canadisc snooker player
* 1950 - Debbie Allen, actress, dancer, choreographer
* 1950 - Caroline Munro, actress
* 1959 - Sade, singer
* 1962 - Julie AutumnCook, Bookmobile Woman
* 1969 - Roy Jones Jr., boxer
* 1974 - Kate Moss, supermodel
* 1979 - Aaliyah, singer (d. 2001)
* 1980 - Albert Pujols, baseball player
* 1980  - Michelle Wild, Hungarian pornstar
* 1981 - Ana Rita

## Dēaðas
* 1747 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Þēodisc poet (b. 1680)
* 1794 - Edward Gibbon, stǣrmann (b. 1737)
* 1806 - William Pitt the Younger, Fyrmestscealc þæs Geānlǣhtan Cynerīces (b. 1759)
* 1876 - Edmund H. Sears, composer
* 1917 - George Dewey, Admiral (b. 1837)
* 1936 - Albert Fish, serial killer (electrocuted) (b. 1870)
* 1942 - Carole Lombard, actress (b. 1908)
* 1957 - Arturo Toscanini, conductor (b. 1867)
* 1962 - Ivan Meštrović, sculptor (b. 1883)
* 1982 - Red Smith, sports columnist
* 1986 - Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God
* 1995 - Eric Mottram - poet, teacher, critic, editor (b. 1924)
* 2001 - Laurent-Dēsirē Kabila, foresittend þæs Democratic Republic of the Congo (assassinated; death officially confirmed on 18 Æfterra Gēola) 
* 2002 - Michael Bilandic, mayor of Chicago, IL (b. 1923)
* 2002 - Eddie Meduza
* 2002 - Bobo Olson, American boxer 
* 2002 - Ron Taylor, American actor

## Symbeldagas and observances
15 Æfterra Gēola - 17 Æfterra Gēola - 16 Gēolmōnaþ - 16 Solmōnaþ -- Getalu ealra daga