October 16
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October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining after October 16 until the end of the year.
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[change] Events
- 1793 – Marie Antoinette is executed on the guillotine.
- 1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
- 1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
- 1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded.
- 1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March.
- 1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
- 1946 – Execution of Nazi war criminals who were sentenced in the Nuremberg Trials
- 1951 – Pakistan's Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan is assassinated.
- 1963 – Ludwig Erhard is chosen to succeed Konrad Adenauer as Chancellor of Germany.
- 1970 – In response to the October Crisis, Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act.
- 1973 – Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are announced as the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1978 – Karol Wojtyła becomes Pope John Paul II.
- 1984 – Desmond Tutu wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1986 – Reinhold Messner reaches the top of Lhotse in the Himalayas with Hans Kammerlander. Messner becomes the first person to climb all the mountains over 8000 metres high.
- 1987 – The southern part of the United Kingdom is hit by a major storm which causes a lot of damage, especially with fallen trees, and kills 18 people.
- 1995 – The Skye Bridge, linking the Isle of Skye to mainland Scotland, is opened.
- 1996 – 84 people are crushed to death at the Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala.
- 1998 – Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London after Spain issued an arrest warrant for murder.
- 2006 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Hawaii, causing widespread damage.
[change] Births
- 1396 – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)
- 1430 – King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
- 1483 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
- 1535 – Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
- 1663 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)
- 1710 – Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
- 1714 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
- 1726 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
- 1751 – Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia (d. 1805)
- 1752 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (d. 1827)
- 1754 – Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804-07) (d. 1844)
- 1758 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
- 1762 – Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina (1804–06) and U.S. Secretary of Navy (1809–12) (d. 1816)
- 1789 – William Burton, Governor of Delaware (1859–63) (d. 1866)
- 1795 – William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
- 1802 – Isaac Murphy, Governor of Arkansas (1864-68) (d. 1882)
- 1806 – William Pitt Fessenden, U.S. Secretary of Treasury (1864-65) (d. 1869)
- 1815 – Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
- 1819 – Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886)
- 1840 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
- 1841 – Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea and 1st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1909)
- 1847 - Maria Pia of Savoy (d. 1911)
- 1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
- 1861 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
- 1863 – Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
- 1876 – Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer, rugby union and soccer player (d. 1913)
- 1878 – Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
- 1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
- 1890 - Michael Collins, Irish patriot (d. 1922)
- 1895 - Ling Hau Shang, Convicted Triad Leader (d. 1954)
- 1908 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian political leader (d. 1985)
- 1914 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (d. 2007)
- 1918 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990)
- 1923 - Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby commentator (d. 2010)
- 1925 - Angela Lansbury, British-born actress
- 1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1931 - Charles Colson, American Watergate conspirator (d. 2012)
- 1932 - Detlev Rohwedder, German politician and manager (d. 1991)
- 1936 - Peter Bowles, English actor
- 1936 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
- 1938 - Nico, German musician, fashion model and actress (d. 1988)
- 1947 - Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player
- 1958 - Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer
- 1962 - Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (d. 2010)
- 1962 - Flea, Australian-American musician (Red Hot Chilli Peppers)
- 1965 - Steve Lamacq, British DJ
- 1966 - Stefan Reuter, German footballer
- 1967 - Davina McCall, British television presenter
- 1970 - Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
- 1975 - Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer
- 1975 - Kellie Martin, American actress and director
- 1979 - Erin Brown, American actress, model, filmmaker and musician
- 1982 - Cristian Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
- 1983 - Philipp Kohlschreiber, German tennis player
- 1983 - Loreen, Swedish singer
- 1984 - Shayne Ward, British singer, winner of the 2005 X Factor
- 1985 - Verena Sailer, German sprinter
- 1985 - Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
- 1986 - Inna, Romanian singer
- 1986 - Craig Pickering, British sprinter
- 1990 - Johanna Gudrun Jonsdottir (Yohanna), Icelandic singer
- 1991 - Jedward, Irish pop singers
[change] Deaths
- 640 – Saint Gall, monk and missionary (b. around 550)
- 1553 – Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
- 1591 – Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535)
- 1791 – Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and statesman (b. 1739)
- 1793 – Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (b. 1755)
- 1796 – Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
- 1822 – Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian ballet dancer (b. 1724)
- 1888 – John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
- 1944 – Jon Sveinsson, Icelandic writer (b. 1857)
- 1946 – Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893)
- 1946 – Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1892)
- 1946 – Julius Streicher, German propagandist (b. 1884)
- 1946 – Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890)
- 1946 – Ernst Kaltenbrunner, SS officer (b. 1903)
- 1951 – Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1895)
- 1954 – Jules Rimet, French football administrator (b. 1873)
- 1959 – George Marshall, United States Secretary of State (b. 1880)
- 1982 – Mario del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915)
- 1990 – Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (b. 1919)
- 1997 – James Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
- 2003 – Laszlo Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
- 2006 – Valentin Paniagua Corazao, President of Peru (b. 1936)
- 2007 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
- 2007 – Tose Proeski, Macedonian singer (b. 1981)
- 2010 – Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915)
- 2011 – Dan Wheldon, British auto racer (b. 1978)
[change] Observances
- Teacher's Day (Poland)
- World Food Day
