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October 16 in History
Historical Events on October 16
456
Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
690
Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
955
Battle on the Raxa: King Otto I defeats the Obotrite federation led by Nako and his brother Stoigniew near Mecklenburg.
1384
Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1590
Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.
1780
Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
1793
Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1793
The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
1813
The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
1834
Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
1836
Battle of Vegkop between Afrikaner voortrekkers and Matabele warriors in South Africa.
1841
Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
1843
Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
1846
William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
1847
The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is published in London.
1859
John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
1869
The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
1869
Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
1875
Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1882
The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1905
The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
1906
The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
1909
William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold a summit, a first between a U.S. and a Mexican president, and they only narrowly escape assassination.
1916
In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
1923
The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1934
Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
1939
World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
1940
The Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1943
Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome
1946
Nuremberg trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
1947
Republic of the Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
1949
Nikos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
1950
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is published, starting The Chronicles of Narnia series.
1951
The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1964
China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
1964
Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.
1968
United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
1968
Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
1968
Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1970
In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
1973
Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1975
The Balibo Five, a group of Australian-based television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
1975
Rahima Banu, a two-year-old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
1975
The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government's annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
1978
Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
1984
Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1991
Luby's shooting: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
1993
Anti-Nazism riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
1995
The so-called Million Man March, which, according to the National Park Service, only about 400,000 attended,[1] takes place in Washington, D.C.
1995
The Skye Bridge is opened.
1996
Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
1998
Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
2002
Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
2013
Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.
2017
Hurricane Ophelia makes eerie red sun and yellow sky from Sahara dust and ashes from Iberia causes 200,000 homes in Ireland without power and damage
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