October 16 Events |
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| October 16th, 2002 (October 16 2002) | Event | Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated. | |
| October 16th, 1998 (October 16 1998) | Event | Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges. | |
| October 16th, 1996 (October 16 1996) | Event | 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. | |
| October 16th, 1995 (October 16 1995) | Event | The Million Man March occurs in Washington, DC. | |
| October 16th, 1993 (October 16 1993) | Event | Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching British National Party headquarters | |
| October 16th, 1991 (October 16 1991) | Event | Luby s massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby s Cafeteria. | |
| October 16th, 1991 (October 16 1991) | Event | Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India. | |
| October 16th, 1987 (October 16 1987) | Event | Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people. | |
| October 16th, 1984 (October 16 1984) | Event | Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. | Desmond Tutu Quotes |
| October 16th, 1978 (October 16 1978) | Event | Pope John Paul II is elected in Rome. | |
| October 16th, 1975 (October 16 1975) | Event | 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. | |
| October 16th, 1973 (October 16 1973) | Event | Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. | Henry Kissinger Quotes |
| October 16th, 1970 (October 16 1970) | Event | CanadaIn response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act. | Pierre Trudeau Quotes |
| October 16th, 1968 (October 16 1968) | Event | United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked out of the USA s team for performing a Black Power salute during a medal ceremony. | |
| October 16th, 1968 (October 16 1968) | Event | Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country. | |
| October 16th, 1964 (October 16 1964) | Event | People s Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon; Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksey Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secreaty of the CPSU and Premier, respectively. | Leonid Brezhnev Quotes |
| October 16th, 1962 (October 16 1962) | Event | Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Cuba began. | |
| October 16th, 1951 (October 16 1951) | Event | The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi. | |
| October 16th, 1949 (October 16 1949) | Event | Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War. | |
| October 16th, 1949 (October 16 1949) | Event | The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and German Democratic Republic were established. | |
| October 16th, 1946 (October 16 1946) | Event | Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg trials are hanged. | |
| October 16th, 1945 (October 16 1945) | Event | The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in Quebec City, Canada. | |
| October 16th, 1940 (October 16 1940) | Event | Benjamin O. Davis Sr. named first African American general in the United States Army. | |
| October 16th, 1940 (October 16 1940) | Event | Warsaw Ghetto established. | |
| October 16th, 1939 (October 16 1939) | Event | World War II: First attack on British territory by German Luftwaffe. | |
| October 16th, 1934 (October 16 1934) | Event | 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. | Mao Zedong Quotes |
| October 16th, 1923 (October 16 1923) | Event | The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney. | Walt Disney Quotes |
| October 16th, 1916 (October 16 1916) | Event | Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic. | Margaret Sanger Quotes |
| October 16th, 1906 (October 16 1906) | Event | The Captain of Kopenick fools the city hall of Kopenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer. | |
| October 16th, 1905 (October 16 1905) | Event | The Partition of Bengal (India) occurred. | |
| October 16th, 1882 (October 16 1882) | Event | The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business. | |
| October 16th, 1875 (October 16 1875) | Event | Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah. | |
| October 16th, 1869 (October 16 1869) | Event | Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is discovered. | |
| October 16th, 1869 (October 16 1869) | Event | England s first residential college for women, Girton College, Cambridge, is founded. | |
| October 16th, 1859 (October 16 1859) | Event | John Brown leads raid on Harper s Ferry, West Virginia | |
| October 16th, 1843 (October 16 1843) | Event | Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers. | |
| October 16th, 1841 (October 16 1841) | Event | Queen s University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. | |
| October 16th, 1834 (October 16 1834) | Event | Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster in London is burnt down. | |
| October 16th, 1813 (October 16 1813) | Event | The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig. | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| October 16th, 1793 (October 16 1793) | Event | Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution. | Marie Antoinette Quotes |
| October 16th, 1793 (October 16 1793) | Event | Battle of Wattignies. | |
| October 16th, 1781 (October 16 1781) | Event | George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown. | George Washington Quotes |
| October 16th, 1780 (October 16 1780) | Event | Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont last major raid of the American Revolutionary War. | |
| October 16th, 1775 (October 16 1775) | Event | Portland, Maine burnt by the British. | |
| October 16th, 0456 (October 16 0456) | Event | Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire. | |
