He was ordained deacon 16 June and priest 22 December 1633.

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He was canonized and proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on December 16, 1931 by Pope Pius XI and patron saint of the sciences.

Signed at The Hague on 16 December 1970, the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft contains 14 articles relating to what constitutes hijacking as well as guidelines for what is expected of governments when dealing with hijackings.

On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.

On 5 December 2009 AZ announced that Koeman no longer was in charge of AZ, after losing 7 of the first 16 games in the Dutch competition.

In December 2011, Aon Corporation paid a $ 16. 26 million penalty to the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) and the US Department of Justice ( DOJ ) for violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ( FCPA ).

Saint Adelaide of Italy ( 931 / 932 – 16 December 999 ), also called Adelaide of Burgundy, was the second wife of Otto the Great, Holy Roman Emperor.

On her way to Burgundy to support her nephew Rudolf III against a rebellion, she died at Selz Abbey on December 16, 999, days short of the millennium she thought would bring the Second Coming of Christ.

Her feast day, December 16, is still kept in many German dioceses.

* American Medical Association, AMA Says Alcohol Industry Targets Teen Girls, December 16, 2004.

The administration then launched a four-day bombing campaign named Operation Desert Fox, lasting from December 16 to December 19, 1998.

Göran Bror Benny Andersson () ( born 16 December 1946 ), known professionally as Benny Andersson, is a Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA ( 1972 – 1983 ), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia !.

The arrival of troops on 16 December put a final end to the republican resistance without bloodshed, and 57 insurgents were tried ; 38 were condemned to deportation ( though several were pardoned in April ).

In December 2008, Power Fasteners agreed to pay $ 16 million to the state to settle manslaughter charges.

On 16 December 2006 he became the first player for the West Indies to pass 10, 000 One Day International runs.

The project was slated to be completed by December 31, 2011 ; as of 16 March 2012, construction is ongoing.

The channel's journalistic output has been overseen by Controller of the channel, Kevin Bakhurst, since 16 December 2005.

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

: On December 16, 2004, the CIA added an entry for the European Union ( EU ).

Coleman launched on December 15, 2010 ( December 16 Baikonur time ), aboard Soyuz TMA-20 to join the Expedition 26 mission aboard the International Space Station.

Coat of arms of the Earl Attlee | Earls Attlee He retired from the Commons and was elevated to the peerage to take his seat in the House of Lords as Earl Attlee and Viscount Prestwood on 16 December 1955.

* Camillo Laurenti ( 17 December 1928 – 16 December 1935 )

In December 1985 the European Parliament established the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, to be given annually for outstanding contributions to human rights.

Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 published in December 1985, the company started to venture into the market of home console video games, which became its main business segment a few years later.

In December 1985 a teenage girl purchased the album at the Wherehouse Records store in Los Angeles County.

George Pólya ( December 13, 1888 – September 7, 1985, in Hungarian Pólya György ) was a Hungarian Jewish mathematician.

Yakima Training Center ; Yakima, Washington was the main testing grounds of the HMMWVs from 1985 through December 1991, when the motorized concept was abandoned and the Division inactivated.

Handwritten notes taken by Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger on December 7, 1985 indicate that Reagan was aware of potential hostages transfers with Iran, as well as the sale of Hawk and TOW missiles to " moderates elements " within that country.

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* 1985, United Kingdom, Futura Orbit ISBN 0-7088-8166-1, Pub date December 1985, paperback

After the December 1985 Rome and Vienna airport attacks, which killed 19 and wounded around 140, Gaddafi indicated that he would continue to support the Red Army Faction, the Red Brigades, and the Irish Republican Army as long as European countries support anti-Gaddafi Libyans.

In late December 1985, however, a border dispute between Mali and Burkina Faso over the mineral rich Agacher strip erupted into a brief war.

He was born in Los Angeles, California, to Irene Flaugher ( born 1916-died December 26, 1985 ), an unwed woman from Kentucky who became pregnant through a relationship with an army corporal named John Bourgholtzer ( died 1993 ).

In December 1985 Rory Nugent spotted an anomaly moving through the middle of Lake Tele, approximately 1 kilometer from his position on the shore.

Jones sold the company to Ashton-Tate in December 1985 for about $ 20 million.

The Jets were featured in the first NFL playoff game in the stadium's history, falling to the Patriots on December 28, 1985.

In 1979 RTÉ long running TV soap The Riordans moved to Radio until December 24, 1985.

Despite an initial reluctance to develop for video game consoles, Square entered the Nintendo Famicom market in December 1985 with the porting of Thexder.

* Muhammetnazar Gapurowiç Gapurow ( 24 December 1969 – 21 December 1985 )

* Saparmyrat Ataýewiç Nyýazow ( 21 December 1985 – 16 December 1991 )

* Chary Soyunovich Karriyev ( 15 December 1978 – 26 March 1985 )

Backstage at the Hollywood Palace show on December 26, 1985, one member's eyeball mask ( Mr. Red Eye ) was stolen, so it was replaced with a giant skull mask.

She was commissioned 30 December 1959 and decommissioned 24 January 1985.

* December 21 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1985 )