About the day » Thursday December 29, 2016Calender converter

• Douwe Siurd Jan Bartstra (83), Hoorn, Friesland, Nederland
• Harold Broersma (84), Ottawa County, Michigan, United States of America
• Debra Ann Russell **** (52), Fayetteville, Cumberland, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Arnolda Wilhelmina Johanna Paping (70), Delfzijl
• Anna Henderina Snoeij (81)
• Agatha Hartevelt (92), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Harry Boonstra (76)
• Abraham Johannesz Penning (85), Ottawa, Canada
• Cornelia Mathilda Jonkvrouwe Van Foreest (95), Sint Michielsgestel
• Dennis Charles (Shorty) DICK, Eliza Purton Home, Tasmania, Australia

• 1988 » Ágnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis player
• 1988 » Christen Press, American footballer
• 1988 » Eric Berry, American football player
• 1989 » Kei Nishikori, Japanese tennis player
• 1993 » Gabby May, Canadian artistic gymnast
• 1993 » Travis Head, Australian cricketer
• 1995 » Ross Lynch, American singer and actor
• 1996 » Sana Minatozaki, Japanese singer (Twice)
• 1997 » Felix Keisinger, German skeleton racer
• 2000 » Eliot Vassamillet, Belgian singer

• 2013 » Benjamin Curtis, American guitarist, drummer, and songwriter (b. 1978)
• 2013 » C. T. Hsia, Chinese-American critic and scholar (b. 1921)
• 2013 » Connie Dierking, American basketball player (b. 1936)
• 2013 » Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish skier (b. 1937)
• 2014 » Hari Harilela, Indian-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist (b. 1922)
• 2014 » Juanito Remulla, Sr., Filipino lawyer and politician, Governor of Cavite (b. 1933)
• 2015 » Om Prakash Malhotra, Indian general and politician, 25th Governor of Punjab (b. 1922)
• 2015 » Pavel Srníček, Czech footballer and coach (b. 1968)
• 2016 » Keion Carpenter, American football defensive back (b. 1977)
• 2016 » LaVell Edwards, American football head coach (b. 1930)

• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 17.0 million citizens.
• January 15 » The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle.
• January 16 » Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.
• April 22 » The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.
• July 23 » Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and 260 were injured.
• September 17 » Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan. Thirty-one people are injured in the Manhattan bombing.
• September 28 » The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas.

The temperature on December 29, 2016 was between -4.0 °C and -0.8 °C and averaged -2.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.