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October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in Leap
years). There are 76 days remaining.
Events
- 456 - Count Ricimer defeats the Roman Emperor
Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western empire
- 1775 - Portland, Maine
burned by the British
- 1781 - George
Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia
- 1834 - Houses of
Parliament burn down in London
- 1859 - John Brown leads raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
- 1869 - Cardiff Giant, one of
the most famous American hoaxes, discovered.
- 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
established
- 1946 - Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg
trials were hanged: Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von
Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Arthur
Seyss-Inquart and Julius Streicher. Hermann Göring committed suicide the night before his planned execution.
- 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
- 1970 - Anwar Sadat elected
President of Egypt
- 1973 - Henry Kissinger and
Le Duc Tho awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1978 - Karol Wojtyla becomes Pope John Paul II
- 1984 - Desmond Tutu awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize
- 1995 - The Million Man
March occurs in Washington, DC.
Births
- 1430 - James II of
Scotland (d. 1460)
- 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)
- 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 - Primo Conti, Futurist
painter
- 1914 - Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan
- 1925 - Angela Lansbury,
actress
- 1927 - Günter Grass, German novelist
- 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)
- 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
Deaths
- 1591 - Pope Gregory
XIV
- 1793 - Marie Antoinette,
queen of France
- 1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy
- 1877 - Theodore
Barričre, French dramatist
- 1888 - John
Wentworth, mayor of Chicago, United States
- 1900 - Primo Conti, Futurist painter
- 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
- 1989 - Cornel Wilde, actor
- 1990 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer
- 1992 - Shirley Booth,
actress
- 1997 - James Michener,
writer
- 1998 - Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer
- 1999 - Jean Shepherd, writer,
actor
Holidays
October 15 - October 17 -
September 16 - November
16 - more historical anniversaries
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