October 16
October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in Leap years ). There are 76 days remaining.
Events
400-1899
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 , was guillotined at the height of the French Revolution .
1793 - Battle of Wattignies
1813 - The Sixth Coalition attacked 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.
1900-1999
1906 - The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
1912 - Bulgarian pilots Radul Minkov 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 was established
1946 - Ten war criminals of the Second World War , condemned in the Nuremberg trials were hanged.
1949 - Nikos Zakhiariadis , leader of the Communist Party of Greece , announced 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 invoked the War Measures Act imposing martial law .
1972 - Rainbow British television programme for children, debuts.
1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho 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 ), were killed by Indonesian troops.
1978 - Karol Józef Wojtyła becomes Pope John Paul II
1984 - Desmond Tutu awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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 .
2000-2099
Births
1400-1899
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 , general of the Austrian army.
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 United States Supreme Court (d. 1980 )
1900-1999
1900 - Primo Conti , Futurist 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 , Watergate scandal conspirator
1936 - Andrei Chikatilo , Russian serial killer
1940 - Barry Corbin , actor
1940 - Dave DeBusschere , NBA basketball player (d. 2003 )
1941 - Tim McCarver , baseball star, 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 Falcăo , Brazillian footballer .
1958 - Tim Robbins , American actor, director, writer
1959 - Gary Kemp , musician, actor
1962 - Flea , bassist (Red Hot Chili Peppers )
1965 - Steve Lamacq , journalist and BBC radio DJ
1974 - Paul Kariya , hockey star
1977 - John Mayer , musician
1980 - Sue Bird , WNBA basketball star
1991 - Rose Margaret Mary Jane Ziemba
Deaths
1500-1899
1900-1999
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 , Austrian Nazi leader, governor of The Netherlands during the German occupation (1940-1945).
1946 - Julius Streicher , German propagandist
1951 - Liaquat Ali Khan , first Prime Minister of Pakistan
1959 - George C. Marshall , general, United States Secretary of State
1972 - Hale Boggs , Congressman from Louisiana
1972 - Leo G. Carroll , actor
1973 - Gene Krupa , musician
1978 - Dan Dailey , actor
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, actor
2000-2099
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