Most Recent Eruption of Mount Fuji. The 1707 eruption of Mount Fuji, known as the H?ei eruption, was the most powerful volcanic event in Japan’s…
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16 December 1707
Most Recent Eruption of Mount Fuji. Mount Fuji, or Fujisan, is Japan’s tallest and most iconic mountain, standing at an impressive height of 3,776 meters…
16 December 1850
The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand. The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph were two…
16 December 1905
In Rugby Union, The “Match of the Century” is played between Wales and New Zealand at Cardiff Arms Park.
16 December 2013
A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Manila_Skyway_bus_accident’]
16 December 1901
Beatrix Potter publishes The Tale of Peter Rabbit. On December 16, 1901, Beatrix Potter published The Tale of Peter Rabbit. It was privately published and…
16 December 1903
The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay opens. The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel is a “Heritage Grand” class five-star hotel in the Colaba…
16 December 1920
An estimated 200,000 are killed when a magnitude 8.5 hits the Gansu province in China. The earthquake that hit China’s remote Gansu Province in late…