Historical Events on October 16

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• 456 Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire
• 1311 Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens
• 1384 Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, despite being a woman

• 1418 Milan Cathedral's high altar consecrated by Pope Martin V

• 1502 Storm ravages Friese coast
• 1551 English Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset and former Lord Protector, re-arrested for treason - executed three months later

• 1600 Olivier van Noorts ships reach Philippines
• 1674 Emperor Leopold I fires chancellor Fürst Wenzel Lobkowitz

• 1710 British troops occupies Port Royal, Nova Scotia
• 1757 Austrian troops occupy Berlin
• 1775 Portland, Maine burned by British
• 1780 Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont last major raid of the American Revolutionary War
• 1793 Battle of Wattignies: French defeat Allied forces and lift siege of Maubeuge
• 1795 M von Böhms "Oorlogscantate" premieres

• 1829 Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)
• 1834 Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster (parliament) in London is burnt down
• 1839 Joseph Saxton, a machine inspector at the US Mint, takes 1st daguerrotype photograph in US, of Central High School building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1841 Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, is chartered
• 1843 Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
• 1846 Dentist William T Morton demonstrates effectiveness of ether

• 1848 1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
• 1849 Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania
• 1849 British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras
• 1852 Dutch government recognize Catholics right to organize

• 1861 Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
• 1863 Grant is given command of Union forces in West

• 1869 Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing
• 1875 1st Quebec vs Ontario football game, Ontario wins

• 1876 Race riot at Cainhoy SC (5 whites & 1 black killed)
• 1882 The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
• 1900 Great Britain and Germany sign the Anglo-German Treaty, agreeing to maintain territorial integrity of China and support 'open door' policy called for by US Secretary of State
• 1901 Baron Hayashi of Japan begins negotiations in London to make an alliance with the British and strengthen Japan's position against Russians

• 1903 Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia
• 1904 Russian Baltic fleet departs to Port Arthur
• 1905 The Partition of Bengal (India) announced by Lord Curzon
• 1907 Belasco Theater opens at 111 W 44th St NYC
• 1907 David Belasco's "Grand Army Man," premieres in NYC
• 1908 Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as Esquimoux

• 1913 Booth Theater opens at 222 W 44th St NYC

• 1915 Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria

• 1921 Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin-only mid-game coaching change in NFL history
• 1922 Influential modernist poem "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot is first published in the UK in magazine "The Criterion"
• 1923 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded
• 1923 John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
• 1925 Peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact)
• 1925 Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
• 1926 Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed
• 1926 Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200

• 1931 US trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd murders two friends then dismembers one of them in Phoenix

• 1939 Sugar rationing begins in the Netherlands
• 1940 Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr. is promoted to brigadier general, the first African-American person to become a general in the US military

• 1941 "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers
• 1941 Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow

• 1942 Aaron Copland and Agnes de Mille's ballet "Rodeo," premieres in NYC
• 1942 Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
• 1942 National Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services
• 1943 Anti Jewish riot in Rome
• 1943 Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new subway system
• 1943 Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz
• 1943 US 1st Army establishes headquarter in Bristol
• 1944 Hungary's government of Miklós Horthy falls; Nazi German general Döme Sztójay becomes prime minister
• 1945 UN's Food & Agriculture Organization comes into existence

• 1949 WDAF TV channel 4 in Kansas City, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting

• 1951 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated by Said Akbar in Rawalpindi
• 1952 Pakistan's 1st Test starts, v India at Delhi
• 1952 Woolworth's at Powell & Market (San Francisco) opens

• 1957 USAF sends 2 aluminium bullets into space

• 1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1960 NL votes to admit Houston & NY to league
• 1962 Byron R White becomes a Supreme Court Justice

• 1962 KTXT TV channel 5 in Lubbock, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1963 2 secret US military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral
• 1963 NY newspaper "Mirror" last edition
• 1964 American swimmer Sharon Strouder sets world record 1:04.7 to beat Ada Kok of the Netherlands by 0.9s and win the women's 100m butterfly at the Tokyo Olympics
• 1964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power

• 1964 In an incredibly close women's 100m final at the Tokyo Olympics American sprinter Wyomia Tyus runs 11.4s to beat teammate Edith McGuire by 0.2s; Ewa Kłobukowska of Poland takes bronze with the same time as McGuire
• 1964 Indians' directors vote to keep franchise in Cleveland, rejecting bids by Seattle, Oakland & Dallas

• 1964 US men's 4 × 100m medley relay team of Thompson Mann, Bill Craig, Fred Schmidt & Steve Clark swim world record 3:58.4 to beat Germany by 3.2s and win gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
• 1967 13th General Conference on Weights and Measures in Paris ends after redefining the second using a cesium-beam atomic clock [1]
• 1967 Joean Baez and 123 other anti-draft protesters are arrested in Oakland, California
• 1967 WETK TV channel 33 in Burlington, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1967 WGNO TV channel 26 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1968 American Bob Seagren, Claus Schiprowski of West Germany and East German Wolfgang Nordwig all record 5.40m in the final of the pole vault at the Mexico City Olympics; Seagren awarded gold on countback

• 1968 China reports removal of president Li Sjao-tji
• 1968 Czechoslovakia & Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces
• 1968 Jim Dorey sets Toronto Maple Leaf penalty records (48 mins on 9 penalties in a game & 44 minutes on 7 penalties in a period)
• 1968 Milwaukee Bucks play their 1st game losing 89-84 to Chicago Bulls
• 1968 The People's Democracy (PD), formed on Oct 9, organise a march of 1,300 students from the Queen's University of Belfast to the City Hall in the centre of the city, Northern Ireland

• 1971 Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in San Francisco
• 1972 2 members of the Official Irish Republican Army are shot dead by the British Army in County Tyrone
• 1972 A Protestant youth member (15) of the Ulster Defence Association, and a UDA member (26) are run over by British Army vehicles during riots in east Belfast
• 1972 Rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival break up
• 1973 Israeli tanks under Gen Sharon move through Suez Canal
• 1973 Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta
• 1973 Monks Heng Yo & Heng Ju, start 1000 mile SF to Seattle pilgrimage
• 1973 The Gulf Six (Iran, Iraq, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar) unilaterally raise the posted price of Saudi Light marker crude-oil by 17 percent

• 1976 Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
• 1976 Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 min 54 sec

• 1979 First global telenovela Mexican "Los ricos también lloran" (The Rich Also Cry) premieres, second foreign series to be screened in the Soviet Union
• 1979 Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to Theodore Schultz and William Arthur Lewis for economic development research, particularly for developing countries [1]
• 1980 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• 1981 2nd Dutch government of Van Agt resigns
• 1981 Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy," premieres in NYC
• 1982 Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return

• 1982 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• 1985 Challenger vehicle moves to launch pad for STS 61A mission

• 1985 KC Royals & St Louis Cardinals win their league championships
• 1985 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman & Jerome Karle
• 1986 Armand Hammer returns to US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb

• 1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1987 338,500,000 shares traded on NY stock exchange (record)

• 1987 Dow Jones for 1st time falls more than 100 pts (108.35)
• 1987 Great Storm of 1987: 175-kph hurricane force winds hit London and much of the South of England killing 23 people and causing widespread blackouts
• 1987 Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22' into a well shaft
• 1987 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1988 "Smile Jamaica" concert for Hurricane Gilbert victims held in London
• 1989 Bikenibau Paeniu installed as premier of Tuvalu
• 1989 Jan Syse becomes premier of Norway
• 1990 Reds beat A's 7-0, ending Oakland's 10-game post-season winning streak
• 1990 US forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf

• 1991 Dallas Mavericks Roy Tarpley becomes 7th to be banned from NBA for life under the league's anti-drug agreement
• 1991 George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas
• 1991 Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India.
• 1991 US Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case

• 1993 Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching British National Party headquarters

• 1993 IRA bomb attack on fish & chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed
• 1994 "Addams Family" actor Raul Julia, actor suffers a stroke
• 1994 Shreveport Pirates win first Canadian Football League game, 24-12 at home to Sacramento Gold Miners; fold 1995
• 1995 Allan Donald takes 8-71 as South Africa defeat Zimbabwe

• 1995 Million Man March held in Washington, D.C. (over 830,000 African American men attend)
• 1995 ODI in Sharjah WI 7-333 in 50 overs beat Sri Lanka 329 all out
• 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.

• 2001 The US Coast Guard lifts a ban on liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers entering Boston Harbor to make deliveries to Distrigas' Everett LNG terminal that had been imposed on September 26 in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11
• 2002 Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.

• 2012 Conflict in Maiduguri, Nigeria, leads to 24 militant deaths and several structures set ablaze
• 2013 18 people are killed after Typhoon Wipha strikes Japan
• 2013 21 people are killed after a minibus hits a land mine in Nawa, Syria
• 2013 49 people are killed after Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes in the Mekong River, Laos
• 2013 The United States ends its 16-day government shut down and avoids default in a Bi-partisan deal in the Senate
• 2014 New Zealand, Malaysia, Angola, Spain and Venezuela are elected to the United Nations Security Council
• 2016 Ed Whitlock (85) becomes oldest person to complete a marathon under 4 hours, at Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 3 hours 56 minutes
• 2017 Findings published of neutron star collision that occurred two months prior on August 17, the first cosmic event seen in gravitational waves and light. Confirms heavy elements such as gold the result of such collisions
• 2017 Iraqi army seizes control of oil-rich Kirkuk, from Kurdish peshmerga
• 2017 Panama Papers Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia killed in a suspicious car bomb in Malta
• 2017 Storm formed from Hurricane Ophelia lashes Ireland, killing 3 people

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