December 16, 2024

December 16, 2024, was a Monday. It was 1 month and 5 days ago. The zodiac star sign for this date is Sagittarius.

What happened on this date?

Notable events that occurred on December 16, 2024:

Three people are killed in a school shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin.

Facts

This date was 36 days ago. It was the 351st day of 2024, in week 51. The decade was the 2020s. The end of 2024 was just 15 days away. A baby that was born on this day is now 5 weeks old. 2024 had 366 days because it was a leap year.

Zodiac

Zodiac, birthstone, and birth flower information.

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Zodiac Sign (Astrology): Anyone born on December 16, 2024, will have the star sign Sagittarius.
Zodiac Element: Fire.
Chinese Zodiac Animal: In the Chinese Zodiac, 2024 was the year of the Dragon (Yang Earth).
The Life Path Number for this date is 9.
Native American Zodiac: December 16, 2024 falls under the Owl.
Birthstone: A person during the month of December will have the birthstones Tanzanite, Zircon and Turquoise.
Birth flower (December): The Narcissus and the Holly.

Personality traits

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What happened around this time?

Notable events that happened close to December 16, 2024.

November 16, 2024:
• UFC 309: Jon Jones defeats Stipe Miocic.
• A former student kills eight people in a mass stabbing attack at the Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in Yixing, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
November 17, 2024: US President Joe Biden allows Ukraine to strike Russia with long-range US missiles.
November 22, 2024: Ridley Scott's film "Gladiator 2" is released.
November 27, 2024: The animated film "Moana 2" is released.
November 28, 2024: Lola Young's song "Messy" goes viral on TikTok.
November 29, 2024:
• The 2024 Irish general election takes place.
• Syrian opposition groups, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, capture the city of Aleppo.
December 1, 2024: Joe Biden issues a full and unconditional pardon for his son, Hunter Biden.
December 3, 2024: South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law.
December 4, 2024:
• UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is shot dead by a hooded gunman in Manhattan.
• The French government is toppled in a historic no-confidence vote.
December 7, 2024: Syrian opposition forces capture the capital city of Damascus.
December 8, 2024:
• Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is overthrown by Islamist-led insurgents.
• Rapper Jay-Z is accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000.
December 9, 2024: A 26-year-old named Luigi Mangione is arrested in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
This date: December 16, 2024
December 19, 2024: Luigi Mangione is extradited to New York for the murder of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
December 20, 2024:
• The film "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" is released.
• Five people are killed after an SUV is driven into a crowd at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.
December 21, 2024: Boxing: Oleksandr Usyk defeats Tyson Fury in a rematch.
December 23, 2024:
• Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murdering healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
• Swiss snowboarder Sophie Hediger dies in an avalanche at the age of 26.
December 25, 2024: 38 people are killed after Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 crashes near Aktau International Airport in Kazakhstan.
December 27, 2024: It is reported that homelessness in the United States has risen to 18%.
December 29, 2024:
• Former US president Jimmy Carter dies aged 100.
• 179 people are killed after Jeju Air Flight 2216 crashes into a wall after "belly landing" in Muan International Airport in South Korea.
January 1, 2025:
• 15 people are killed after a pickup truck is driven into a large crowd in New Orleans, Louisiana.
• A Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump International Hotel Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada.
January 3, 2025: Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigns over the newspaper's refusal to publish a cartoon critical of Jeff Bezos.
January 6, 2025: Justin Trudeau announces that he will be resigning as the prime minister of Canada.
January 7, 2025:
• Mark Zuckerberg announces that Meta will be ending its third party fact-checking program.
• President-elect Donald Trump refuses to rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland.
• Donald Trump says that he will rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
• A series of wildfires begin to affect the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
• The documentary "Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action" is released on Netflix.
January 14, 2025: TikTok ban: TikTok users begin signing up to the Chinese app "RedNote".
January 15, 2025: Filmmaker David Lynch dies aged 78.

TV series on December 16, 2024

TV audiences were watching the following shows on December 16, 2024:

The Family Stallone

The Night Agent

The Last of Us

House of the Dragon

The Bear

The Kardashians

Severance

The Wheel of Time

Only Murders in the Building

The White Lotus

Cobra Kai

Bridgerton

Kids TV shows on December 16, 2024

Cartoons and TV shows that children and teenagers were watching on this day in 2024:

Rock Paper Scissors

Pretty Freekin Scary

Transformers: EarthSpark

Monster High

The Tiny Chef Show

Chibiverse

Face's Music Party

The Villains of Valley View

Baby Shark's Big Show!

Tyler Perry's Young Dylan

The Adventures of Paddington

Video games

Popular video games that people were playing in December 2024.

Starfield

Diablo IV

Celebrity birthdays

Celebrities, historical figures, and other notable people who were born on December 16.

Xander Berkeley

Actor
Born on December 16, 1955
He turned 69 on this day in 2024.

Bill Hicks

Stand-up comedian Deceased
Born on December 16, 1961
He was not alive on this date.

Michael McCary

Boyz II Men
Born on December 16, 1971
He turned 53 on this day in 2024.

Brodie Lee

Wrestler Deceased
Born on December 16, 1979
He was not alive on this date.

Mats Hummels

German soccer player
Born on December 16, 1988
He turned 36 on this day in 2024.

Kai Cenat

Streamer
Born on December 16, 2001
He turned 23 on this day in 2024.

US President

Joe Biden was the President of the United States on December 16, 2024.

UK Prime Minister

Keir Starmer was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Irish Taoiseach

Simon Harris was the Taoiseach of Ireland.

Conception dates

Conception estimates for this date.

Note: These conception dates are based on broad estimates.

A baby that was born on December 16, 2024 was most likely conceived around March 25, 2024.
The due date for a baby that was conceived on December 16, 2024 is close to September 8, 2025.

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Statistics

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36 days have passed since this date.
5 weeks have passed.
3,110,400 seconds have passed since December 16, 2024.
If you were born on this day, your heart has beat approximately 3,628,800 times.
Since then, the Earth has traveled approximately 1,604,966,400 miles through space.
If you were born on this day, your eyes have blinked approximately 518,400 times.
You have taken approximately 267,494 steps. That's roughly 119 miles.
37,325 meteors have entered the Earth's atmosphere.
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