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This day in history: December 16

1. 1930

   German-American gangster Herman Lamm killed himself during a botched robbery attempt in Clinton, Indiana, to avoid being captured by police.

2. 1938

   Adolf Hitler instituted the Cross of Honour of the German Mother, an order of merit for German mothers with at least four children.

3. 1971

   The surrender of Pakistani forces in Dacca, East Pakistan, concluded the Bangladesh Liberation War and the India-Pakistan War.

4. 1997

   Amid an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the British government banned the sale of beef on the bone for human consumption.

5. 1997

   "Dennō Senshi Porygon", an episode of the Japanese television series Pokémon, induced epileptic seizures in 685 children.

6. 2012

   A woman was gang-raped and fatally assaulted on a bus in Delhi, generating protests across India against inadequate security for women.

7. 2014

   A hostage crisis in a Lindt chocolate café in Sydney, Australia, ended with police storming the building, killing the perpetrator and one of the hostages.

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