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• ...that the Certosa di Pavia (pictured) was commissioned by Gian Galeazzo Visconti to be built halfway between his two courts in Milan and Pavia?
• ...that Jason Bedrick, a New Hampshire state representative, is that state's first Orthodox Jewish elected official?
• ...that as a teenager, Chiri Yukie prepared the first Japanese translations of several of the yukar sagas of the Ainu people?
• ...that the Vedic Mathematics genre was revived after Hindu Shankaracharya Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja rediscovered it in the form of sixteen sutras?
• ...that the Department of State Lands is one of Oregon's oldest government agencies?
• ...that on October 5, 1914, a French Voisin III pilot scored the first air-to-air kill of World War I?

• Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the King of Bhutan, abdicates in favour of his son Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck a year earlier than expected.
• The Chinese River Dolphin (illustrated) is declared functionally extinct, the first extinction of a large mammal in recent decades.
• Suffolk police launch an investigation on five dead bodies discovered near Ipswich in Suffolk, England.
• Astronauts on mission STS-116 attempt to retract a solar array on the International Space Station's Integrated Truss Structure.
• Former President of Ethiopia Mengistu Haile Mariam is convicted in absentia of genocide by an Ethiopian court for his part in the so-called "Red Terror".

December 16: National Day in Bahrain (1971), Victory Day in Bangladesh (1971), Independence Day in Kazakhstan (1991).

• 1598 - Admiral Yi Sun Sin's Korean navy defeated the Japanese fleet in the Battle of Noryang Point, the final naval battle of the Imjin War.
• 1653 - The Protectorate: Oliver Cromwell (pictured) became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England.
• 1689 - The Parliament of England adopted the Bill of Rights, declaring that Englishmen possessed certain positive civil and political rights.
• 1773 - Boston Tea Party: To protest the British Tea Act, members of the Sons of Liberty dumped crates of tea bricks from three British East India Company ships into Boston Harbor.

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