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What Happened on October 16th This Day in History

Year	Name
2017	Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss.
2013	Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.
2002	The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria.
1998	Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
1996	Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.
1995	The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attend.
1995	The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened.
1991	George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20.
1985	The Finnish dry cargo ship MS Hanna-Marjut, on its way from Mariehamn to Naantali, sank in hard sea on the open water of Kihti between the Kökar and Sottunga islands of Åland, leading to the drowning of four people.[15]
1984	Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1978	Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
1975	Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, in Portuguese Timor.
1975	Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.
1975	The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget.
1973	Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1970	Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
1968	Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the 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.
1964	China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
1964	Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while Alexei Kosygin becomes the head of government.
1962	Cuban Missile Crisis begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
1953	Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro delivers his "History Will Absolve Me" speech, and is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment by the Fulgencio Batista government for leading an attack on the Moncada Barracks.
1951	The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1949	The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the Greek Civil War.
1947	The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
1946	Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.
1943	Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome.
1940	Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1939	World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
1934	Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.
1923	The Walt Disney Company is founded.
1919	Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
1916	Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
1909	William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
1905	The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
1882	The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1875	Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
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.
1859	John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
1847	The novel Jane Eyre is published in London.
1846	William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation.
1843	William Rowan Hamilton invents quaternions, a three-dimensional system of complex numbers.
1841	Queen's University is founded in the Province of Canada.
1836	Great Trek: Afrikaner voortrekkers repulse a Matabele attack, but lose their livestock.
1834	Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
1817	Simón Bolívar sentences Manuel Piar to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela.
1813	The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon in the three-day Battle of Leipzig.
1805	War of the Third Coalition: Napoleon surrounds the Austrian army at Ulm.
1793	French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed.
1793	War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.
1780	American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.
1780	The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.
1736	Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.
1590	Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.
1384	Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1311	The Council of Vienne convenes for the first time.
955	King Otto I defeats a Slavic revolt in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
912	Abd ar-Rahman III becomes the eighth Emir of Córdoba.
690	Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
456	Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.

Famous People Born on October 16

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Year	Name
1923	Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (d. 2010)
1936	Akira Machida, Japanese lawyer and judge, 15th Chief Justice of Japan (d. 2015)
1956	Marin Alsop, American violinist and conductor
1973	Justin Credible, American wrestler
1955	Ellen Dolan, American actress
1840	Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
1903	Big Joe Williams, American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)
1983	Kenny Omega, Canadian wrestler
1950	Angry Grandpa, American internet personality (d. 2017)
1620	Pierre Paul Puget, French painter and sculptor (d. 1694)

Famous People Deaths On October 16

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on October 16. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1962	Gaston Bachelard, French poet and philosopher (b. 1884)
1936	Effie Adelaide Rowlands, British writer (b. 1859)
385	Fú Jiān, Chinese emperor (b. 337)
1621	Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1562)
1680	Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1609)
1323	Amadeus V, count of Savoy (b. 1249)
2015	Richard J. Cardamone, American lawyer and judge (b. 1925)
1989	Walter Farley, American author and educator (b. 1915)
1999	Jean Shepherd, American radio host, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
2006	John Victor Murra, Ukrainian-American anthropologist and academic (b. 1916)