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October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 76 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

  • 456Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.[1]
  • 690 – Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
  • 912 – Abd ar-Rahman III becomes the eighth Emir of Córdoba.[2]
  • 955 – King Otto I defeats a Slavic revolt in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
  • 1311 – The Council of Vienne convenes for the first time.[3]
  • 1384Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
  • 1590 – Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.
  • 1736 – Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.[4]
  • 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.[5]
  • 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.
  • 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: Napoleon surrounds the Austrian army at Ulm.[6]
  • 1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon in the three-day Battle of Leipzig.
  • 1817 – Simón Bolívar sentences Manuel Piar to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela.[7]
  • 1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
  • 1836 – Great Trek: Afrikaner voortrekkers repulse a Matabele attack, but lose their livestock.
  • 1841 – Queen's University is founded in the Province of Canada.
  • 1843William Rowan Hamilton invents quaternions, a three-dimensional system of complex numbers.
  • 1846 – William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation.
  • 1847 – The novel Jane Eyre is published in London.
  • 1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
  • 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.
  • 1875Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
  • 1882 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
  • 1905 – The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
  • 1909William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.[8]
  • 1916 – Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
  • 1919 – Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.[9]
  • 1923The Walt Disney Company is founded.
  • 1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.
  • 1939World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
  • 1940 – Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
  • 1943 – Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome.
  • 1946 – Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.
  • 1947 – The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
  • 1949 – The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the Greek Civil War.
  • 1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1970 – Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
  • 1973Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • 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.
  • 1978Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
  • 1984Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • 1991 – George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20.
  • 1995 – The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attend.[10]
  • 1995 – The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened.
  • 1996 – Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.
  • 1998 – Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
  • 2002 – The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria.
  • 2013 – Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.
  • 2017 – Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss.

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References

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  2. ^ "'Abd ar-Rahman III". Encyclopædia Britannica. I: A-Ak - Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, IL: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2010. pp. 17–18. ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8.
  3. ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Council of Vienne (1311-12)". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
  4. ^ "This Month in Physics History". Retrieved 2018-10-16.
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  6. ^ "Battle of Ulm | German history". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
  7. ^ "Piar, Manuel Carlos (1782-1817) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed". blackpast.org. 2009-08-18. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
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  10. ^ "Million Man March » Center for Remote Sensing » Boston University".
  11. ^ Cullinan, Bernice E.; Person, Diane Goetz (2005). The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. London: Continuum. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-8264-1778-7.
  12. ^ Vinson, James; Kirkpatrick, Daniel Lane (1982). Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. London: Macmillan. p. 706. ISBN 978-0-3333-2138-6.
  13. ^ Larkin, Colin (2000). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Stage and Film Musicals. London: Virgin with Muse. p. 358. ISBN 978-0-7535-0375-1.
  14. ^ Korte, Anne-Marie (2014). "Mary Daly". In Oppy, Graham; Trakakis, Nick N. (eds.). Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion. London: Routledge. p. 245. ISBN 978-1-3157-2959-6.
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  16. ^ "Players: Stuart Lightbody". bwfbadminton.com. Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  17. ^ "Gregory XIV | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  18. ^ Lassner, Martin (18 July 2011). "Johann Rudolf Stadler". Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse (DHS) (in French). Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  19. ^ "Marie-Antoinette | Facts, Biography, & French Revolution". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  20. ^ Smetanin, Alexander Ivanovich (1991). Оборона Порт-Артура (in Russian). Moskow: Voennoe Izd-vo. p. 103. ISBN 978-5-2030-0488-8.
  21. ^ Lammel, Wolfgang (30 June 2018). "Vision Weltfrieden: Die Pazifistin Anna B. Eckstein". Sonntagsblatt (in German). Munich. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  22. ^ "Veteran character actor Ed Lauter dies at age 74". The San Francisco Chronicle. October 17, 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-10-20. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
  23. ^ "International Days". www.un.org. 6 January 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2021.

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