What happened on December 16? There are more than 305 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

Interesting Facts & Myths About December 16

December 16 In HistoryDecember 16 is the 351st day of the year 2024. There are 15 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 51st week of the year 2024.

On this day in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73150 sunrise will occur at 07:30 AM and sunset will occur at 05:20 PM (local time).

The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Sagittarius. The modern birthstone for this month is Turquoise while the mystical birthstone is Onyx.

According to the Chinese calendar, there are 44 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).

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Historical Events For December 16

  • 755
    An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion during the Tang Dynasty of China.
  • 1431
    Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris.
  • 1497
    Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
  • 1575
    The 1575 Valdivia earthquake takes place.
  • 1598
    Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point – The final battle of the Seven Year War is fought between the China and the Korean Allied Forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive Allied Forces victory.
  • 1653
    English Interregnum: The Protectorate – Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
  • 1689
    Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
  • 1707
    Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
  • 1761
    Seven Years’ War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg.
  • 1773
    American Revolution: Boston Tea Party – Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
  • 1811
    The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. These four so-called mega-quakes are believed to be an ongoing cataclysmic danger that could reprise the 1811-12 series of 2,000 quakes that affected the lands of what would be eight of today’s heartland states of the United States.
  • 1826
    Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
  • 1838
    Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
  • 1850
    History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.
  • 1863
    American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Army of Tennessee.
  • 1864
    American Civil War: Franklin-Nashville Campaign – Battle of Nashville – Major General George H. Thomas’s Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood’s Confederate Army of Tennessee.
  • 1907
    The Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world
  • 1914
    World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
  • 1918
    Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • 1920
    The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
  • 1922
    President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.
  • 1930
    Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a posse of 200, following a botched bank robbery in Clinton, Indiana.
  • 1937
    Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
  • 1938
    Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother
  • 1941
    World War II: Japanese forces occupy Miri, Sarawak
  • 1942
    Holocaust: Porajmos – Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.
  • 1944
    World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
  • 1946
    Thailand joins the United Nations.
  • 1947
    William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
  • 1950
    U.S. President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight with communist North Korea in the Korean War.
  • 1957
    Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
  • 1960
    1960 New York air disaster: While approaching New York’s Idlewild Airport, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collides with a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation in a blinding snowstorm over Staten Island, killing 134.
  • 1965
    Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966.
  • 1971
    “National Day” of the Kingdom of Bahrain is celebrated. Not to be confused with Bahrain Independence Day which took place on August 15, 1971.
  • 1971
    Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan army brings an end to both conflicts.
  • 1972
    Vietnam War: Henry Kissinger announces that North Vietnam has left private peace negotiations, in Paris.
  • 1972
    Vijay Diwas: (Victory Day) is commemorated every 16 December in India as it marks its military victory over Pakistan in 1971 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
  • 1978
    Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $14,000,000 to local banks.
  • 1979
    Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, having an immediate dramatic effect on the United States.
  • 1985
    Mafia: In New York City, Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of the Gambino family.
  • 1986
    Revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist Party of Kazakhstan, known as Zheltoksan, which becomes the first sign of ethnic strife during Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s tenure
  • 1989
    Protests break out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.
  • 1989
    Walter LeRoy Moody begins his terrorist bombing streak when he sends Judge Robert Smith Vance a bomb in the mail, instantly killing him near his house in Birmingham, Alabama.
  • 1991
    Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan.
  • 1997
    An episode of Pokémon, “Dennō Senshi Porygon”, aired in Japan induces seizures in 685 Japanese children.
  • 1998
    Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert Fox – The United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq.
  • 2003
    President George W. Bush signs the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 into law. The law establishes the United States’ first national standards for the sending of commercial e-mail and requires the Federal Trade Commission to enforce its provisions.

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Who Were Born On December 16?

  • 1584
    John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (d. 1654)
  • 1614
    Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674)
  • 1714
    George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (d. 1770)
  • 1716
    Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798)
  • 1717
    Elizabeth Carter, English writer (d. 1806)
  • 1742
    Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal (d. 1819)
  • 1770
    Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer and pianist (d. 1827)
  • 1775
    François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer (d. 1834)
  • 1775
    Jane Austen, English writer (d. 1817)
  • 1776
    Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist (d. 1810)
  • 1778
    John Ordronaux, privateer of the War of 1812 (d. 1841)
  • 1787
    Mary Russell Mitford, English writer (d. 1855)
  • 1790
    King Leopold I of Belgium (d. 1865)
  • 1804
    Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1889)
  • 1834
    Léon Walras, French economist (d. 1910)
  • 1861
    Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (d. 1917)
  • 1863
    George Santayana, Spanish philosopher and writer (d. 1952)
  • 1865
    Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (d. 1918)
  • 1866
    Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French abstract painter (d. 1944)
  • 1867
    Amy Carmichael, missionary in Dohnavur, India (d. 1951)
  • 1869
    Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1952)
  • 1872
    Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (d. 1947)
  • 1882
    Sir Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (d. 1963)
  • 1882
    Walther Meissner, German physicist (d. 1974)
  • 1882
    Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d. 1967)
  • 1883
    Károly Kós, Hungarian architect, writer and politician from Transylvania (d. 1977)
  • 1883
    Max Linder, French pioneer of silent film (d. 1925)
  • 1888
    Alphonse Juin, marshal of France (d. 1967)
  • 1888
    King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
  • 1889
    Kim Jwa-jin, played an important role in the Korean Anarchist Movement (d. 1930)
  • 1899
    Sir Noel Coward, English playwright, actor and composer (d. 1973)
  • 1900
    V. S. Pritchett, English author and critic (d. 1997)
  • 1901
    Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (d. 1978)
  • 1902
    Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet (d. 1999)
  • 1903
    Hardie Albright, American actor (d. 1975)
  • 1905
    Piet Hein, Danish mathematician and inventor (d. 1996)
  • 1907
    Barbara Kent, Canadian actress (d. 2011)
  • 1913
    George Ignatieff, Russian-born Canadian diplomat (d. 1989)
  • 1915
    Turk Murphy, American trombonist (d. 1987)
  • 1916
    Birgitta Valberg, Swedish actress
  • 1917
    Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Sindhi scholar (d. 2011)
  • 1917
    Ruth Johnson Colvin, Founder of Literacy Volunteers of America
  • 1917
    Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English writer (d. 2008)
  • 1918
    Pierre Delanoë, French songwriter and lyricist (d. 2006)
  • 1920
    Frederick Rotimi Williams, Nigerian politician and jurist (d. 2005)
  • 1922
    Cy Leslie, American music and video executive (d. 2008)
  • 1923
    Menahem Pressler, German-Israeli pianist.
  • 1926
    James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)
  • 1927
    Randall Garrett, American writer (d. 1987)
  • 1928
    Philip K. Dick, American writer (d. 1982)
  • 1928
    Terry Carter, American actor
  • 1929
    Nicholas Courtney, English actor (d. 2011)
  • 1932
    Rodion Shchedrin, Soviet/Russian composer
  • 1936
    Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 1937
    Joyce Bulifant, American actress
  • 1938
    Frank Deford, American sportswriter
  • 1938
    Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress
  • 1939
    Philip Langridge, English opera singer (d. 2010)
  • 1941
    Lesley Stahl, American journalist
  • 1941
    Robert Kerman, American actor
  • 1942
    Donald Carcieri, American politician, governor of Rhode Island
  • 1942
    Eugene Robert Glazer, American actor
  • 1943
    Steven Bochco, American television producer and writer
  • 1943
    Tony Hicks, English guitarist (The Hollies)
  • 1944
    Don Meyer, Basketball coach Northern State University, David Lipscomb University, and Hamline University
  • 1944
    Jeff Kanew, American film director, writer and editor
  • 1944
    N!xau, Namibian actor and bush farmer (d. 2003)
  • 1945
    Bobby George, English professional darts player
  • 1945
    Patti Deutsch, American actress and Match Game panelist
  • 1945
    Yukio Hattori, Japanese television commentator
  • 1946
    Benny Andersson, Swedish musician, singer and songwriter (ABBA)
  • 1946
    Charles Dennis, Canadian actor
  • 1946
    Christopher Ellison, English actor
  • 1946
    Terence Knox, American actor
  • 1946
    Tom Stern, American cinematographer
  • 1946
    Trevor Pinnock, English conductor and harpsichordist
  • 1947
    Ben Cross, English actor
  • 1947
    Vincent Matthews, American sprinter
  • 1948
    Christopher Biggins, English actor
  • 1949
    Billy Gibbons, American guitarist (ZZ Top)
  • 1950
    Claudia Cohen, American gossip columnist and socialite (d. 2007)
  • 1950
    Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (d. 2006)
  • 1951
    Mike Flanagan, American baseball pitcher (d. 2011)
  • 1951
    Robben Ford, American guitarist
  • 1952
    Francesco Graziani, Italian footballer
  • 1952
    Joel Garner, Barbadian cricketer
  • 1953
    Rebecca Forstadt, American voice actor
  • 1955
    Carol Browner, American environmentalist and government official
  • 1955
    Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
  • 1955
    Xander Berkeley, American actor
  • 1957
    Antonio Vega, Spanish pop singer/songwriter (d. 2009)
  • 1958
    Bart Oates, American football player
  • 1958
    Katie Leigh, American voice actress
  • 1959
    Alison LaPlaca, American actress
  • 1959
    Larry Poindexter, American actor and singer
  • 1960
    Canuto Kallan, Danish visual artist
  • 1960
    Pat Van Den Hauwe, Belgian footballer
  • 1961
    Andre Andersen, Russian/Danish multi-instrumentalist and composer
  • 1961
    Bill Hicks, American comedian (d. 1994)
  • 1961
    Gretchen Palmer, American actress
  • 1961
    Jon Tenney, American actor
  • 1961
    LaChanze, American singer
  • 1961
    Sam Robards, American actor
  • 1961
    Shane Black, American actor, writer and director
  • 1962
    Maruschka Detmers, Dutch actress
  • 1962
    Melanie Smith, American actress
  • 1962
    William Perry, American football player
  • 1963
    Benjamin Bratt, American actor
  • 1963
    James Mangold, American film director and screenwriter
  • 1963
    Jeff Carson, American singer
  • 1964
    Billy Ripken, American baseball player
  • 1964
    Gail Harris, English actress
  • 1964
    Georgie Parker, Australian actress
  • 1964
    Heike Drechsler, East German sprinter
  • 1964
    Paul Vogt, American actor and comedian
  • 1965
    Chris Jones, American baseball player
  • 1965
    Melanie Sloan, American attorney
  • 1965
    Nancy Valen, American actress
  • 1966
    Clifford Robinson, American basketball player
  • 1966
    Dennis Wise, English footballer
  • 1967
    Donovan Bailey, Jamaican/Canadian sprinter,
  • 1967
    Mark Palmer, American ambassador
  • 1967
    Miranda Otto, Australian actress
  • 1968
    Lalah Hathaway, American singer
  • 1968
    Mark Dean Schwab, American rapist and murderer (d. 2008)
  • 1968
    Peter Dante, American actor
  • 1969
    Florencia Lozano, American actress
  • 1969
    Shane, American adult film actress
  • 1970
    Daniel Cosgrove, American actor
  • 1970
    Valerie Chow, Hong Kong actress
  • 1971
    Michael McCary, American singer (Boyz II Men)
  • 1971
    Paul van Dyk, German DJ
  • 1971
    Seyhan Kurt, French/Turkish poet,writer
  • 1972
    Željko Kalac, Australian footballer
  • 1972
    Angela Bloomfield, New Zealand actress
  • 1972
    Charles Gipson, American baseball player
  • 1972
    Paul Leyden, Australian actor
  • 1973
    Luisa Ranieri, Italian actress
  • 1973
    Sarah Kozer, American model and actress
  • 1973
    Scott Storch, Canadian/American hip-hop producer
  • 1973
    Themba Mnguni, South African footballer
  • 1974
    Earl C. Poitier, American actor
  • 1974
    Frida Hallgren, Swedish actress
  • 1975
    Benjamin Kowalewicz, Canadian musician (Billy Talent)
  • 1975
    Jonathan Scarfe, Canadian actor
  • 1975
    Nawo Kawakita, Japanese drummer (Maximum the Hormone)
  • 1975
    Valentin Bădoi, Romanian footballer
  • 1977
    Éric Bélanger, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1977
    Sylvain Distin, French footballer
  • 1978
    Gunter Van Handenhoven, Belgian footballer
  • 1978
    Joe Absolom, English actor
  • 1978
    John Morris, Canadian Curler
  • 1978
    Kaine, American rapper (Ying Yang Twins)
  • 1979
    Jessie Ward, American professional wrestler
  • 1979
    Mihai Trăistariu, Romanian singer
  • 1979
    Trevor Immelman, South African golfer
  • 1981
    Anna Sedokova, Ukrainian singer
  • 1981
    Gareth Williams, Scottish footballer
  • 1981
    Krysten Ritter, American actress
  • 1982
    Antrel Rolle, American football player
  • 1982
    Garnon Davies, Welsh actor
  • 1982
    Justin Mentell, American artist and actor (d. 2010)
  • 1982
    Stanislav Šesták, Slovakian footballer
  • 1983
    Danielle Lloyd, English model
  • 1983
    Frankie Ballard, American singer
  • 1983
    Kelenna Azubuike, American basketball player
  • 1984
    Theo James, American actor
  • 1985
    Amanda Setton, American actor
  • 1985
    Keita Tachibana, Japanese singer (w-inds.)
  • 1986
    Alcides Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
  • 1986
    Candice Crawford, American beauty queen and sports reporter
  • 1987
    Beau Dowler, Australian rules footballer
  • 1987
    Hallee Hirsh, American actress
  • 1987
    Mame Biram Diouf, Senegalese footballer
  • 1988
    Anna Popplewell, English actress
  • 1990
    Julito McCullum, American actor
  • 1993
    Lola Créton, French actress
  • 1999
    Bryce Robinson, American actor

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Who Died On December 16?

  • 705
    Empress Wu of Zhou (b. 625)
  • 714
    Pippin of Herstal, Frankish noble
  • 867
    Eberhard of Friuli
  • 999
    Saint Adelaide of Italy (b. 931)
  • 1325
    Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (b. 1270)
  • 1378
    Otto III of Montferrat
  • 1379
    John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel, British noble and naval commander
  • 1470
    John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425)
  • 1515
    Afonso de Albuquerque Portuguese naval commander (b. 1453)
  • 1598
    Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (b. 1545)
  • 1669
    Nathaniel Fiennes, English politician (b. c. 1608)
  • 1687
    William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (b. 1623)
  • 1751
    Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (b. 1700)
  • 1765
    Peter Frederick Haldimand, Swiss military officer and surveyor (b. 1741/42)
  • 1774
    François Quesnay, French economist (b. 1694)
  • 1783
    Johann A. Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
  • 1783
    Sir William James, British naval commander (b. 1720)
  • 1809
    Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (b. 1755)
  • 1859
    Wilhelm Grimm, German writer and folklorist (b. 1786)
  • 1892
    Henry Yesler, American entrepreneur and politician (b. 1810)
  • 1897
    Alphonse Daudet, French novelist and short story writer (b. 1840)
  • 1898
    Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832)
  • 1914
    Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (b. 1832)
  • 1916
    Ognjeslav Kostović Stepanović, Serbian inventor (b. 1851)
  • 1921
    Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)
  • 1922
    Gabriel Narutowicz, Polish politician (b. 1865)
  • 1928
    Elinor Wylie, American poet and writer (b. 1885)
  • 1930
    Herman Lamm, German-born American bank robber (b. 1890)
  • 1935
    Thelma Todd, American actress (b. 1905)
  • 1940
    Billy Hamilton, American baseball player (b. 1866)
  • 1944
    Betsie ten Boom, sister of Corrie ten Boom and Holocaust victim (b. 1885)
  • 1945
    Fumimaro Konoye, Japanese politician (b. 1891)
  • 1945
    Giovanni Agnelli, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1866)
  • 1948
    Denham Fouts, American gigolo and socialite (b. 1914)
  • 1949
    Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (b. 1873)
  • 1956
    Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (b. 1890)
  • 1965
    W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (b. 1874)
  • 1968
    Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna (b. 1912)
  • 1968
    General Muhammad Suheimat, Jordanian military commander and statesman (b.1916)
  • 1976
    Réal Caouette, French-Canadian politician (b. 1917)
  • 1977
    Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (b. 1934)
  • 1980
    Colonel Sanders, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1890)
  • 1980
    Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
  • 1982
    Colin Chapman, English engineer and automobile manufacturer (b. 1928)
  • 1983
    Debs Garms, American baseball player (b. 1907)
  • 1985
    Paul Castellano, American organized crime figure (b. 1915)
  • 1985
    Thomas Bilotti, American organized crime figure (b. 1940)
  • 1988
    Sylvester James, American singer (b. 1948)
  • 1989
    Óscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentine racing driver (b. 1913)
  • 1989
    Aileen Pringle, American actress (b. 1895)
  • 1989
    Lee Van Cleef, American actor (b. 1925)
  • 1989
    Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (b. 1930)
  • 1990
    Douglas Campbell, American aviator (b. 1896)
  • 1991
    Tamási Eszter, Hungarian TV announcer and actress (b. 1938)
  • 1993
    Charizma, American Hip-Hop MC (b. 1973)
  • 1993
    Moses Gunn, American actor (b. 1929)
  • 1993
    Tanaka Kakuei, Japanese politician (b. 1918)
  • 1995
    Johnny Moss, American poker player (b. 1907)
  • 1995
    Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director (b. 1939)
  • 1996
    Quentin Bell, English art historian (b. 1910)
  • 1997
    Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney (b. 1899)
  • 1997
    Nicolette Larson, American singer (b. 1952)
  • 1998
    William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922)
  • 2001
    Stefan Heym, German author (b. 1913)
  • 2001
    Stuart Adamson, English-born Scottish musician (The Skids, Big Country) (b. 1958)
  • 2003
    Gary Stewart, American musician and songwriter (b. 1945)
  • 2003
    Robert Stanfield, Canadian politician (b. 1914)
  • 2004
    Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (b. 1933)
  • 2005
    Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (b. 1937)
  • 2005
    John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946)
  • 2005
    Kenneth Bulmer, English author (b. 1921)
  • 2006
    Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1940)
  • 2006
    Pnina Salzman, Israeli pianist (b. 1922)
  • 2006
    Taliep Petersen, South African singer and composer (b. 1950)
  • 2007
    Dan Fogelberg, American singer/songwriter (b. 1951)
  • 2009
    Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, South African physician and politician (b. 1940)
  • 2009
    Roy E. Disney, American film industry executive (b. 1930)
  • 2009
    Yegor Gaidar, Russian politician (b. 1956)
  • 2010
    Melvin E. Biddle, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1923)
  • 2011
    Dan Frazer, American actor (b. 1921)

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