On This Day — October 16

🕰️ Notable Events on October 16

• 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 Wikipedia ↗
• 2013 — Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people. Wikipedia ↗
• 2002 — Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated. Wikipedia ↗
• 1998 — Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges. Wikipedia ↗
• 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. Wikipedia ↗
• 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. Wikipedia ↗
• 1995 — The Skye Bridge is opened. Wikipedia ↗
• 1993 — Anti-Nazism riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters. Wikipedia ↗
• 1991 — Luby's shooting: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria. Wikipedia ↗
• 1984 — Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Wikipedia ↗
• 1978 — Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523. Wikipedia ↗
• 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. Wikipedia ↗
• 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. Wikipedia ↗
• 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. Wikipedia ↗
• 1973 — Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Wikipedia ↗
• 1970 — In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act. Wikipedia ↗
• 1968 — United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute. Wikipedia ↗
• 1968 — Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country. Wikipedia ↗
• 1968 — Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Wikipedia ↗
• 1964 — China detonates its first nuclear weapon. Wikipedia ↗
• 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. Wikipedia ↗
• 1951 — The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi. Wikipedia ↗
• 1950 — The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is published, starting The Chronicles of Narnia series. Wikipedia ↗
• 1949 — Nikos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War. Wikipedia ↗
• 1947 — Republic of the Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom. Wikipedia ↗
• 1946 — Nuremberg trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial. Wikipedia ↗
• 1943 — Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome Wikipedia ↗
• 1940 — The Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established. Wikipedia ↗
• 1939 — World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain. Wikipedia ↗
• 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. Wikipedia ↗
• 1923 — The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney. Wikipedia ↗
• 1916 — In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States. Wikipedia ↗
• 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. Wikipedia ↗
• 1906 — The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer. Wikipedia ↗
• 1905 — The Partition of Bengal in India takes place. Wikipedia ↗
• 1882 — The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business. Wikipedia ↗
• 1875 — Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah. Wikipedia ↗
• 1869 — The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered". Wikipedia ↗
• 1869 — Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women. Wikipedia ↗
• 1859 — John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Wikipedia ↗
• 1847 — The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is published in London. Wikipedia ↗
• 1846 — William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome. Wikipedia ↗
• 1843 — Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers. Wikipedia ↗
• 1841 — Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Wikipedia ↗
• 1836 — Battle of Vegkop between Afrikaner voortrekkers and Matabele warriors in South Africa. Wikipedia ↗
• 1834 — Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground. Wikipedia ↗
• 1813 — The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig. Wikipedia ↗
• 1793 — Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution. Wikipedia ↗
• 1793 — The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory. Wikipedia ↗
• 1780 — Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War. Wikipedia ↗
• 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. Wikipedia ↗
• 1384 — Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman. Wikipedia ↗
• 955 — Battle on the Raxa: King Otto I defeats the Obotrite federation led by Nako and his brother Stoigniew near Mecklenburg. Wikipedia ↗
• 690 — Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire. Wikipedia ↗
• 456 — Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire. Wikipedia ↗

🎂 Notable Births on October 16

• 1994 — Adam Elliott, Australian rugby league player Wikipedia ↗
• 1994 — Amelia Lily, English singer-songwriter Wikipedia ↗
• 1993 — Caroline Garcia, French tennis player Wikipedia ↗
• 1992 — Bryce Harper, American baseball player Wikipedia ↗
• 1992 — Kostas Fortounis, Greek footballer Wikipedia ↗
• 1991 — Jedward, Irish twin singers Wikipedia ↗
• 1990 — Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir, Danish-Icelandic singer Wikipedia ↗
• 1989 — Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby player Wikipedia ↗
• 1988 — Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer Wikipedia ↗
• 1986 — Nicky Adams, English-Welsh footballer Wikipedia ↗
• 1986 — Derk Boerrigter, Dutch footballer Wikipedia ↗
• 1985 — Jay Beagle, Canadian ice hockey player Wikipedia ↗
• 1985 — Verena Sailer, German sprinter Wikipedia ↗
• 1985 — Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer Wikipedia ↗
• 1985 — Peter Wallace, Australian rugby league player Wikipedia ↗
• 1984 — François Pervis, French track cyclist Wikipedia ↗
• 1984 — Rachel Reilly, American talk show host and actress Wikipedia ↗
• 1983 — Philipp Kohlschreiber, German tennis player Wikipedia ↗
• 1983 — Loreen, Swedish singer and producer Wikipedia ↗
• 1983 — Kenny Omega, Canadian professional wrestler Wikipedia ↗
• 1982 — Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player Wikipedia ↗
• 1982 — Cristian Riveros, Paraguayan footballer Wikipedia ↗
• 1982 — Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor, singer, and producer Wikipedia ↗
• 1981 — Martin Halle, Danish footballer Wikipedia ↗
• 1981 — Boyd Melson, American boxer Wikipedia ↗
• 1981 — Anthony Reyes, American baseball player Wikipedia ↗
• 1980 — Sue Bird, American basketball player Wikipedia ↗
• 1980 — Timana Tahu, Australian rugby league player Wikipedia ↗
• 1979 — Nicola Blackwood, South African-English politician Wikipedia ↗
• 1979 — Erin Brown, American actress, director, and screenwriter Wikipedia ↗
• 1978 — Ethan Luck, American guitarist and drummer Wikipedia ↗
• 1977 — John Mayer, American singer-songwriter, rapper, guitarist, and producer Wikipedia ↗
• 1977 — Laura Wade, English playwright Wikipedia ↗
• 1975 — Ernesto Noel Aquino, Honduran footballer Wikipedia ↗
• 1975 — Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer Wikipedia ↗
• 1975 — Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer Wikipedia ↗
• 1975 — Kellie Martin, American actress, director, and producer Wikipedia ↗
• 1974 — Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer Wikipedia ↗
• 1974 — Paul Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player Wikipedia ↗
• 1973 — Justin Credible, American wrestler Wikipedia ↗
• 1973 — David Unsworth, English footballer and manager Wikipedia ↗
• 1972 — Adrianne Frost, American comedian, actress, and author Wikipedia ↗
• 1972 — Darius Kasparaitis, Lithuanian-Russian ice hockey player and coach Wikipedia ↗
• 1972 — Kordell Stewart, American football player and radio host Wikipedia ↗
• 1971 — Chad Gray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Wikipedia ↗
• 1971 — Paul Sparks, American actor Wikipedia ↗
• 1971 — Frank Cuesta, Television presenter Wikipedia ↗
• 1970 — Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist Wikipedia ↗
• 1970 — Mehmet Scholl, German footballer and manager Wikipedia ↗
• 1969 — Roy Hargrove, American trumpet player and composer Wikipedia ↗
• 1969 — Takao Omori, Japanese wrestler Wikipedia ↗
• 1969 — Terri J. Vaughn, American actress and producer Wikipedia ↗
• 1969 — Wendy Wilson, American singer-songwriter Wikipedia ↗
• 1968 — Randall Batinkoff, American actor and producer Wikipedia ↗
• 1968 — Mark Lee, Singaporean actor and singer Wikipedia ↗
• 1968 — Francesco Libetta, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor Wikipedia ↗
• 1968 — Todd Stashwick, American actor and writer. Wikipedia ↗
• 1968 — Elsa Zylberstein, French actress Wikipedia ↗
• 1967 — Michael Laffy, Australian footballer Wikipedia ↗
• 1967 — Davina McCall, English television host and actress Wikipedia ↗
• 1966 — Olof Lundh, Swedish journalist Wikipedia ↗
• 1966 — Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, American voice actress, singer, and director Wikipedia ↗
• 1965 — Kang Kyung-ok, South Korean illustrator Wikipedia ↗
• 1965 — Tom Tolbert, American basketball player and sportscaster Wikipedia ↗
• 1964 — Shawn Little, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2012) Wikipedia ↗
• 1964 — James Thompson, American-Finnish author (d. 2014) Wikipedia ↗
• 1963 — Brendan Kibble, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist Wikipedia ↗
• 1963 — Timothy Leighton, English physicist and academic Wikipedia ↗
• 1962 — Flea, Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor Wikipedia ↗
• 1962 — Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (d. 2010) Wikipedia ↗
• 1962 — Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian opera singer Wikipedia ↗
• 1962 — Nico Lazaridis, German footballer Wikipedia ↗
• 1962 — Tamara McKinney, American skier Wikipedia ↗
• 1961 — Marc Levy, French author Wikipedia ↗
• 1961 — Randy Vasquez, American actor, director, and producer Wikipedia ↗
• 1960 — Guy LeBlanc, Canadian keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2015) Wikipedia ↗
• 1960 — Bob Mould, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Wikipedia ↗
• 1959 — Kevin Brennan, Welsh journalist and politician Wikipedia ↗
• 1959 — Brian Harper, American baseball player Wikipedia ↗
• 1959 — Gary Kemp, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor Wikipedia ↗
• 1959 — Philip Maini, mathematician at the University of Oxford Wikipedia ↗
• 1959 — Tessa Munt, English lawyer and politician Wikipedia ↗
• 1959 — Jamie Salmon, English-New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster Wikipedia ↗
• 1959 — Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian flute player and composer Wikipedia ↗
• 1959 — John Whittingdale, English politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Wikipedia ↗
• 1958 — Roy McDonough, English footballer and manager Wikipedia ↗
• 1958 — Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter Wikipedia ↗
• 1957 — Priidu Beier, Estonian poet and educator Wikipedia ↗
• 1956 — Marin Alsop, American violinist and conductor Wikipedia ↗
• 1956 — John Chavis, American football player and coach Wikipedia ↗
• 1956 — Meg Rosoff, American-English author Wikipedia ↗
• 1956 — Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (d. 1992) Wikipedia ↗
• 1955 — Ellen Dolan, American actress Wikipedia ↗
• 1954 — Lorenzo Carcaterra, American author and blogger Wikipedia ↗
• 1954 — Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland Wikipedia ↗
• 1954 — Serafino Ghizzoni, Italian rugby player Wikipedia ↗
• 1954 — Corinna Harfouch, German actress Wikipedia ↗
• 1953 — Tony Carey, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer Wikipedia ↗
• 1953 — Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer and manager Wikipedia ↗
• 1952 — Christopher Cox, American lawyer and politician Wikipedia ↗
• 1952 — Cordell Mosson, American bass player (d. 2013) Wikipedia ↗
• 1952 — Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, English politician Wikipedia ↗
• 1950 — Károly Horváth, Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer (d. 2015) Wikipedia ↗
• 1949 — Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, screenwriter, and playwright Wikipedia ↗
• 1948 — Alison Chitty, English production designer and costume designer Wikipedia ↗
• 1948 — Bruce Fleisher, American golfer Wikipedia ↗
• 1948 — Hema Malini, Indian actress, director, producer, and politician Wikipedia ↗
• 1948 — Leo Mazzone, American baseball player and coach Wikipedia ↗
• 1947 — Nicholas Day, English actor Wikipedia ↗
• 1947 — Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player and coach Wikipedia ↗
• 1947 — Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter, and guitarist Wikipedia ↗
• 1947 — David Zucker, American director, producer, and screenwriter Wikipedia ↗
• 1946 — Geoff Barnett, English footballer Wikipedia ↗
• 1946 — Suzanne Somers, American actress and producer Wikipedia ↗
• 1945 — Stefan Buczacki, English horticulturalist, botanist, and television host Wikipedia ↗
• 1945 — Roger Hawkins, American session drummer Wikipedia ↗
• 1945 — Paul Monette, American author and poet (d. 1995) Wikipedia ↗
• 1944 — Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager Wikipedia ↗
• 1943 — Fred Turner, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player Wikipedia ↗
• 1941 — Tim McCarver, American baseball player, sportscaster, and singer Wikipedia ↗
• 1941 — Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, English computer programmer and politician Wikipedia ↗
• 1940 — Barry Corbin, American actor and producer Wikipedia ↗
• 1940 — Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach (d. 2003) Wikipedia ↗
• 1940 — Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (d. 2009) Wikipedia ↗
• 1938 — Carl Gunter, Jr., American politician (d. 1999) Wikipedia ↗
• 1938 — Nico, German singer-songwriter, model, and actress (d. 1988) Wikipedia ↗
• 1936 — Peter Bowles, English actor and screenwriter Wikipedia ↗
• 1936 — Andrei Chikatilo, Ukrainian-Russian serial killer (d. 1994) Wikipedia ↗
• 1936 — Mladen Koščak, Croatian footballer (d. 1997) Wikipedia ↗
• 1936 — Akira Machida, Japanese lawyer and judge, 15th Chief Justice of Japan Wikipedia ↗
• 1934 — Peter Ashdown, English racing driver Wikipedia ↗
• 1932 — John Grant, English journalist and politician (d. 2000) Wikipedia ↗
• 1932 — Henry Lewis, American bassist and conductor (d. 1996) Wikipedia ↗
• 1932 — Lucien Paiement, Canadian physician and politician (d. 2013) Wikipedia ↗
• 1931 — Charles Colson, American lawyer and politician (d. 2012) Wikipedia ↗
• 1931 — Valery Klimov, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator Wikipedia ↗
• 1931 — Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress Wikipedia ↗
• 1931 — P. W. Underwood, American football player and coach (d. 2013) Wikipedia ↗
• 1930 — John Polkinghorne, English physicist, theologian and priest Wikipedia ↗
• 1930 — Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress Wikipedia ↗
• 1929 — Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress Wikipedia ↗
• 1928 — Mary Daly, American philosopher and theologian (d. 2010) Wikipedia ↗
• 1928 — Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (d. 2016) Wikipedia ↗
• 1927 — Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015) Wikipedia ↗
• 1926 — Charles Dolan, American businessman, founded Cablevision and HBO Wikipedia ↗

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