October 16
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October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in Leap years). There are 76 days remaining.
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Events
- 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Roman Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire
- 1775 - Portland, Maine burned by the British
- 1781 - George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia
- 1793 - Marie Antoinette, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, and wife of Louis XVI and hence Queen Consort of France, guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
- 1793 - Battle of Wattignies
- 1813 - The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig, on their way to an invasion of France to restore the House of Bourbon to the French throne.
- 1834 - Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster in London is burnt down
- 1859 - John Brown leads raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
- 1869 - Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, discovered.
- 1869 - England's first residential college for women, Girton College, is founded in Cambridge.
- 1882 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
- 1906 - The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
- 1912 - Bulgarian pilots Radul Milkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the first bombing with an airplane in history at the railway station of Karaagac near Edirne against Turkey.
- 1934 - Chinese Communists under Mao Zedong begin their Long March
- 1940 - Benjamin O. Davis Sr. named first African American general in the United States Army
- 1940 - Warsaw Ghetto established
- 1946 - Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg trials hanged.
- 1949 - Nikos Zakhiariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire to prevent the complete annihilation of Greece", effectively marking the end of the Greek Civil War.
- 1951 - The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi
- 1964 - People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon
- 1968 - US-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked out of the USA's team for performing a raised-fist Black Power salute during the 200m dash medal ceremony.
- 1968 - Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
- 1970 - Anwar Sadat elected President of Egypt
- 1970 - Canada - In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act imposing martial law.
- 1972 - Rainbow, a British television programme for children, debuts.
- 1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1975 - The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
- 1978 - Karol Józef Wojtyła becomes Pope John Paul II
- 1984 - Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1987 - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.
- 1991 - George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 19 in Luby's Cafeteria.
- 1992 - Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson files a 1.4 million USD lawsuit against French tabloids for running topless photos taken of her on the French Riviera, including some of Texas millionaire John Bryan suckling on her toes.
- 1995 - The Million Man March occurs in Washington, DC.
- 1996 - 84 are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 soccer fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Mateo Flores Stadium in Guatemala City.
- 2001 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: U.S. warplanes mistakenly bomb International Red Cross warehouse in Kabul, Afghanistan .
- 2002 - Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
- 2003 - iTunes released for Windows XP and Windows 2000.
Births
- 1430 - James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
- 1483 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
- 1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese retainer, samurai, and daimyo (d. 1585)
- 1663 - Eugene of Savoy, Austrian general
- 1714 - Giovanni Arduino, geologist (d. 1795)
- 1758 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer
- 1815 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
- 1840 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician and prime minister (d. 1900)
- 1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
- 1861 - J. B. Bury, historian (d. 1927)
- 1878 - Maxey Long, American athlete
- 1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
- 1888 - Eugene O'Neill, American playwright (d. 1953)
- 1890 - Michael Collins, Irish patriot (d. 1922)
- 1890 - Paul Strand, photographer
- 1898 - William O. Douglas, justice of the U.S. Supreme Court]] (d. 1980)
- 1900 - Primo Conti, painter
- 1908 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (d.1985)
- 1914 - Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan
- 1925 - Angela Lansbury, actress
- 1927 - Günter Grass, German novelist
- 1928 - Mary Daly, radical feminist philosopher
- 1931 - Charles Colson, American conspirator
- 1936 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer
- 1940 - Barry Corbin, actor
- 1940 - Dave DeBusschere, basketball player (d. 2003)
- 1941 - Tim McCarver, baseball player and commentator
- 1946 - Suzanne Somers, actress
- 1947 - Bob Weir, musician (The Grateful Dead)
- 1947 - Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player
- 1952 - Boogie Mosson, musician (P Funk)
- 1952 - Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1953 - Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazil footballer
- 1958 - Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer
- 1959 - Gary Kemp, musician, actor
- 1962 - Flea, musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- 1965 - Steve Lamacq, journalist]] and disc jockey
- 1974 - Paul Kariya, hockey player
- 1977 - John Mayer, musician
- 1980 - Sue Bird, basketball player
Deaths
- 1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
- 1591 - Pope Gregory XIV
- 1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
- 1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy
- 1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist
- 1888 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago
- 1946 - Hans Frank, German war criminal
- 1946 - Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal
- 1946 - Alfred Jodl, German military officer
- 1946 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer
- 1946 - Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer
- 1946 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician
- 1946 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist
- 1946 - Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal
- 1946 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austria]n Nazi leader
- 1946 - Julius Streicher, German propagandist
- 1951 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan
- 1959 - George C. Marshall, general and United States Secretary of State
- 1972 - Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana
- 1972 - Leo G. Carroll, actor
- 1973 - Gene Krupa, musician
- 1977 - Douglas Palermo, writer and teacher
- 1978 - Dan Dailey, actor
- 1979 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author
- 1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general
- 1983 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer
- 1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)
- 1989 - Cornel Wilde, actor
- 1990 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer
- 1992 - Shirley Booth, actress
- 1997 - James Michener, American writer
- 1998 - Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer
- 1999 - Jean Shepherd, writer and actor
- 2003 - Stu Hart, professional wrestler
- 2003 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer
- 2003 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist
Holidays
- Bahá'í Faith - Feast of 'Ilm (Knowledge) - First day of the 12th month of the Bahá'í Calendar
- United States - Boss's Day
- United States - National Feral Cat Day
External links
- BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/16)
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