Notable Historical Events on October 16th
October 16th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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, although a woman. |
1492 |
Columbus' fleet anchors at "Fernandina" (Long Island, Bahamas) |
1502 |
Storm ravages Friese coast |
1551 |
English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset re-arrested |
1600 |
Olivier van Noorts ships reach Philippines |
1674 |
Emperor Leopold I fires chancellor Furst 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. |
1781 |
Washington takes Yorktown |
1793 |
Battle of Wattignies. |
1795 |
M von Böhms "Oorlogscantate" premieres |
1813 |
Battle of Leipzig, largest battle in Europe prior to WWI, Napoleon's forces defeated by Prussia, Austria & Russia |
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. |
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 |
1847 |
Charlotte Bronte's book "Jane Eyre" published |
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 |
1859 |
John Brown leads 21 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va |
1861 |
Confederacy starts selling postage stamps |
1863 |
Grant is given command of Union forces in West |
1867 |
Alaska adopts Gregorian calendar, crosses intl date line |
1869 |
Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing |
1875 |
1st Quebec vs Ontario football game, Ontario wins |
1875 |
Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah. |
1876 |
Race riot at Cainhoy SC (5 whites & 1 black killed) |
1882 |
The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business. |
1900 |
Queen Wilhelmina leaves duke Heinrich "Henry" von Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
1900 |
Great Britain and Germany sign the Anglo-German Treaty, in which they agree to maintain the territorial integrity of China and support the '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) occurred. |
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 |
1909 |
Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
1909 |
Pirates beat Tigers 4 games to 3 in 6th World Series |
1912 |
Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," premieres |
1912 |
Boston beats NY Giants, 4 games to 3 with a tie in 9th World Series |
1913 |
Booth Theater opens at 222 W 44th St NYC |
1915 |
Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria |
1916 |
Dodger manager Wilbert Robinson given $5,000 bonus |
1916 |
Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (46 Amboy St, Bkln) |
1916 |
T E Lawrence (of Arabia) meets with Fasal Hoessein |
1921 |
Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, & Bill Piercy defy Landis ban on World Series |
1921 |
Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin-only mid-game coaching change in NFL history |
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 |
1928 |
Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points |
1931 |
Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops 1st |
1934 |
Mao Zedong & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March |
1936 |
Lou Gehrig, is voted AL MVP by BBWAA |
1939 |
Sugar rationing begins in Netherlands |
1940 |
Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army |
1940 |
Lottery for 1st US WW II draftees held; #158 drawn 1st |
1940 |
Warsaw Ghetto forms |
1941 |
"Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers |
1941 |
Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow |
1941 |
Romanian Legionnaires enter Odessa, Russia |
1942 |
Aaron Copland/de Milles ballet "Rodeo," premieres in NYC |
1942 |
Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India |
1942 |
Natl 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: Horthy government falls/nazi count Szalasi becomes premier |
1945 |
UN's Food & Agriculture Organization comes into existence |
1946 |
10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials |
1948 |
"Red Mill" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 831 performances |
1948 |
Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir |
1949 |
WDAF TV channel 4 in Kansas City, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1950 |
The first edition of C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" is released in London |
1951 |
The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi. |
1952 |
Pakistan's 1st Test starts, v India at Delhi |
1952 |
Woolworth's at Powell & Market (SF) opens |
1953 |
Fidel Castro sentenced to 15 years (Havana) |
1956 |
"Love Me Tender" with Elvis Presley premieres |
1956 |
William J Brennan Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice |
1957 |
Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits Williamsburg Virginia |
1957 |
USAF sends 2 aluminium bullets into space |
1958 |
Benjamin Britten's "Nocturne," premieres |
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 |
Cuban missile crisis begins as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba |
1962 |
KTXT TV channel 5 in Lubbock, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
Yanks (20th championship) beat SF Giants 4 games to 3 in World Series |
1962 |
NY Yankees appear in 12 & win 9 of last 14 World Series |
1963 |
2 secret US military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral |
1963 |
NY newspaper "Mirror" last edition |
1964 |
China becomes world's 5th nuclear power |
1964 |
Harold Wilson's Labour party wins British election |
1964 |
Indians' directors vote to keep franchise in Cleveland, rejecting bids by Seattle, Oakland & Dallas |
1965 |
"Drat! - The Cat!" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 8 perfs |
1966 |
Joean Baez & 123 other anti-draft protestors arrested in Oakland |
1967 |
WETK TV channel 33 in Burlington, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
WGNO TV channel 26 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
China reports removal of president Li Sjao-tji |
1968 |
Czechoslovakia & Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces |
1968 |
During Olympics Tommie Smith & John Carlos give black power salute |
1968 |
Milwaukee Bucks play their 1st game losing 89-84 to Chicago Bulls |
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 |
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 |
1969 |
100-1 shot NY Mets beat Orioles 5-3 & win 66th World Series in 5 |
1969 |
Soyuz 6 returns to Earth |
1969 |
Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he scores on a HR in World Series |
1970 |
Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser |
1970 |
Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act as a response to the October Crisis, the only peacetime use of the War Measures Act in Canadian history. |
1971 |
Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in SF |
1972 |
"Pacific Paradise" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 5 performances |
1972 |
Creedence Clearwater Revival breaks up |
1972 |
2 members of the Offical 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 |
1973 |
Israeli tanks under Gen Sharon move through Suez Canal |
1973 |
Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize |
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 |
1974 |
As' Ken Holtzman, who hasn't batted all season, belts 3rd inning home run in Game 4 & gets the win, 5-2 |
1976 |
Soyuz 23 returns to Earth |
1976 |
Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 min 54 sec |
1978 |
Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon |
1978 |
Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected Pope John Paul II |
1978 |
Test debut of Kapil Dev, India v Pakistan at Faisalabad |
1980 |
"Brigadoon" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 133 performances |
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 |
Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins |
1982 |
Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return |
1982 |
Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel |
1982 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1983 |
"Zorba" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 362 performances |
1983 |
25th Ryder Cup: US, 14½-13½ at PGA National Golf Club (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, US) |
1983 |
Balt Orioles beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 3 in 80th World Series |
1984 |
Baboon heart transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl |
1984 |
Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize |
1985 |
Challenger vehicle moves to launch pad for STS 61A mission |
1985 |
Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip |
1985 |
KC Royals & St Louis Cardinals win their league championships |
1985 |
Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman & Jerome Karle |
1986 |
"Raggedy Ann" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 5 performances |
1986 |
Armand Hammer returns to US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb |
1986 |
US government closes down due to budget problems |
1986 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1987 |
175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England |
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 |
Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22' into a well shaft |
1987 |
Mike Tyson TKOs Tyrell Biggs in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
1987 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1987 |
Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people. |
1988 |
"Smile Jamaica" concert for Hurricane Gilbert victims held in London |
1988 |
Orel Hirsheiser, 1st to pitch shutout in playoff & World Series |
1989 |
Bikenibau Paeniu installed as premier of Tuvalu |
1989 |
Jan Syse becomes premier of Norway |
1990 |
"Stand Up Tragedy" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 13 perfs |
1990 |
Reds Eric Davis is 22nd player to homer in his 1st World Series at bat |
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 |
George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas |
1991 |
US Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case |
1991 |
Dallas Mavericks Roy Tarpley becomes 7th to be banned from NBA for life under the league's anti-drug agreement |
1991 |
Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India. |
1992 |
1,700th David Letterman Show |
1992 |
1964 "Gilligan's Island" TV pilot 1st shown on TV (TBS) |
1993 |
General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president |
1993 |
IRA bomb attack on fish & chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed |
1993 |
Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching British National Party headquarters |
1994 |
Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), suffers a stroke |
1995 |
Allan Donald takes 8-71 as South Africa defeat Zimbabwe |
1995 |
Brian Lara scores 169 in Sharjah ODI versus Sri Lanka |
1995 |
Million Man March held in Wash DC (over 800,000 black 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. |
1997 |
"Side Show," opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 91 performances |
1998 |
Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges. |
2001 |
The US Coast Guard lifts a ban on liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers entering Boston Harbor to makes 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 |
21 people are killed after a minibus hits a land mine in Nawa, Syria |
2013 |
The United States ends its 16-day government shut down and avoids default in a Bi-partisan deal in the Senate |
2013 |
49 people are killed after Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes in the Mekong River, Laos |
2013 |
18 people are killed after Typhoon Wipha strikes Japan |
2014 |
New Zealand, Malaysia, Angola, Spain and Venezuela are elected to the United Nations Security Council |
2016 |
Four killed after truck flies off San Diego bridge onto festival below |
2016 |
Transcripts of Clinton's Wall Street talks released in new Wikileaks dump |
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