User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/December 16

December 16:

 * 1598 - An outnumbered Korean and Ming navy ambush and defeat a Japanese army at the Battle of Noryang Point.
 * 1838 - Boers defeat Zulu troops at Battle of Blood River, led by Dambuza and Nhlela, celebrated in South Africa as the day of the vow.
 * 1864 - American Civil War: Union troops led by General George Thomas defeat Confederate troops in the Battle of Nashville.
 * 1944 - World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins.
 * 1944 - World War II: A V-2 rocket hits the Rex Cinema in Antwerp killing 567 people.
 * 1971 - The Pakistan Army surrenders, ending the Liberation War of Bangladesh and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 simultaneously.
 * 1998 - Operation Desert Fox: American and British troops begin to bomb Iraqi targets after Iraq obstructs UN weapons inspectors.