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Events on the 16th of October in history

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16 Oct 0456 Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
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16 Oct 0690 Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
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16 Oct 1311 Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens
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16 Oct 1384 Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
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16 Oct 1502 Storm ravages Friese coast
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16 Oct 1551 English Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset re-arrested
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16 Oct 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.
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16 Oct 1600 Olivier van Noorts ships reach Philippines
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16 Oct 1710 British troops occupies Port Royal, Nova Scotia
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16 Oct 1757 Austrian troops occupy Berlin
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16 Oct 1775 Portland, Maine burned by British
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16 Oct 1780 Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
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16 Oct 1781 George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
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16 Oct 1781 Washington takes Yorktown
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16 Oct 1793 Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
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16 Oct 1793 The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
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16 Oct 1813 Battle at Leipzig (Napoleon vs. Prussia, Austria and Russia)
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16 Oct 1813 The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
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16 Oct 1829 Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)
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16 Oct 1834 London parliament catches fire; historic documents burn
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16 Oct 1834 Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
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16 Oct 1841 Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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16 Oct 1841 Queens University in Kingston is chartered
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16 Oct 1843 Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
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16 Oct 1846 William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
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16 Oct 1846 Dentist William T Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether
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16 Oct 1848 1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
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16 Oct 1849 Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania
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16 Oct 1849 British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras
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16 Oct 1852 Dutch Government recognize Catholics right to organize
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16 Oct 1859 John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
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16 Oct 1859 John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va
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16 Oct 1861 Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
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16 Oct 1863 Grant is given command of Union forces in West
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16 Oct 1867 Alaska adopts Gregorian calendar, crosses international date line
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16 Oct 1869 The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
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16 Oct 1869 Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
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16 Oct 1869 Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing
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16 Oct 1875 1st Quebec vs. Ontario football game, Ontario wins
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16 Oct 1875 Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
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16 Oct 1876 Race riot at Cainhoy SC (5 whites & 1 black killed)
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16 Oct 1882 The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
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16 Oct 1900 Queen Wilhelmina leaves Duke Heinrich "Henry" von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
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16 Oct 1903 Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia
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16 Oct 1904 Russian Baltic fleet departs to Port Arthur
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16 Oct 1905 The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
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16 Oct 1906 The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
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16 Oct 1907 Belasco Theater opens at 111 W 44th St, New York City
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16 Oct 1908 Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as Esquimoux
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16 Oct 1909 Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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16 Oct 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.
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16 Oct 1909 Pirates beat Tigers 4 games to 3 in 6th World Series
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16 Oct 1912 Boston beats New York Giants, 4 games to 3 with a tie in 9th World Series
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16 Oct 1915 Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria
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16 Oct 1916 Dodger manager Wilbert Robinson given $5,000 bonus
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16 Oct 1916 T E Lawrence (of Arabia) meets with Fasal Hoessein
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16 Oct 1916 In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
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16 Oct 1916 Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (46 Amboy St, Brooklyn)
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16 Oct 1921 Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, and Bill Piercy defy Landis ban on World Series
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16 Oct 1921 Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin-only mid-game coaching change in NFL history
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16 Oct 1923 John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
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16 Oct 1923 The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
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16 Oct 1923 Disney Co founded
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16 Oct 1925 Peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact)
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16 Oct 1925 Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
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16 Oct 1926 Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed
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16 Oct 1926 Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200
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16 Oct 1928 Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points
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16 Oct 1931 Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops first
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16 Oct 1934 Mao Tse-tung and 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March
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16 Oct 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.
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16 Oct 1936 Lou Gehrig, is voted AL MVP by BBWAA
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16 Oct 1939 Sugar rationing begins in the Netherlands
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16 Oct 1939 World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
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16 Oct 1940 Warsaw Ghetto forms
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16 Oct 1940 Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
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16 Oct 1940 Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army
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16 Oct 1940 Lottery for 1st US WW II draftees held; #158 drawn 1st
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16 Oct 1940 Warsaw Ghetto established
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16 Oct 1941 "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers
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16 Oct 1941 Romanian Legionnaires enter Odessa Russia
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16 Oct 1941 Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow
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16 Oct 1942 Aaron Copland / de Milles ballet "Rodeo, " premieres in New York City
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16 Oct 1942 National Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services
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16 Oct 1942 Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
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16 Oct 1943 Anti Jewish riot in Rome
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16 Oct 1943 Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz
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16 Oct 1943 US 1st Army establishes headquarter in Bristol
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16 Oct 1943 Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new subway system
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16 Oct 1944 Hungary: Horthy government falls / Nazi count Szalasi becomes Premier
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16 Oct 1944 Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker's first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz's cartoon.
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16 Oct 1945 The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
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16 Oct 1945 UN's Food & Agriculture Organization comes into existence
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16 Oct 1946 Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
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16 Oct 1946 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
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16 Oct 1948 "Red Mill" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 831 performances
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16 Oct 1948 Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir
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16 Oct 1949 WDAF TV channel 4 in Kansas City, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
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16 Oct 1949 Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
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16 Oct 1949 The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.
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16 Oct 1951 The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
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16 Oct 1952 Woolworth's at Powell & Market (SF) opens
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16 Oct 1953 Fidel Castro sentenced to 15 years (Havana)
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16 Oct 1956 "Love Me Tender" with Elvis Presley premieres
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16 Oct 1956 William J Brennan Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice
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16 Oct 1957 Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visits Williamsburg Virginia
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16 Oct 1957 USAF sends 2 aluminium bullets into space
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16 Oct 1960 NL votes to admit Houston and New York to league
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16 Oct 1962 KTXT TV channel 5 in Lubbock, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
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16 Oct 1962 New York Yankees appear in 12 and win 9 of last 14 World Series
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16 Oct 1962 Yanks (20th championship) beat SF Giants 4 games to 3 in World Series
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16 Oct 1962 Byron R White becomes a Supreme Court Justice
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16 Oct 1962 Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
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16 Oct 1962 Yanks (20th championship) beat SF Giants 4 games to 3 in 59th World Series (NY Yankees appear in 12 & win 9 of last 14 World Series)
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16 Oct 1963 2 secret US military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral
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16 Oct 1963 New York newspaper "Mirror" last edition
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16 Oct 1964 Brezhnev and Kosygin replace Khrushchev as head of Russia
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16 Oct 1964 China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
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16 Oct 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.
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16 Oct 1964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
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16 Oct 1965 "Drat! - The Cat!" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 8 performances
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16 Oct 1965 Singer Leslie Uggams marries Grahame Pratt in New York City
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16 Oct 1966 Joean Baez and 123 other ani-draft protestors arrested in Oakland
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16 Oct 1967 WETK TV channel 33 in Burlington, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
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16 Oct 1967 WGNO TV channel 26 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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16 Oct 1968 China reports removal of President Li Sjao-tji
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16 Oct 1968 Czechoslovakia and Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces
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16 Oct 1968 Jim Dorey sets Toronto Maple Leaf penalty records (48 minutes on 9 penalties in a game & 44 minutes on 7 penalties in a period)
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16 Oct 1968 Milwaukee Bucks play their 1st game losing 89-84 to Chicago Bulls
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16 Oct 1968 United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
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16 Oct 1968 Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
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16 Oct 1968 Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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16 Oct 1968 During Olympics Tommie Smith & John Carlos give black power salute
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16 Oct 1969 100-1 shot New York Mets beat Orioles 5-3 and win 66th World Series in 5
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16 Oct 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
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16 Oct 1970 In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
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16 Oct 1970 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
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16 Oct 1971 Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in San Francisco
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16 Oct 1972 "Pacific Paradise" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 5 performances
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16 Oct 1972 Creedence Clearwater Revival breaks up
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16 Oct 1973 Israeli tanks under General Sharon move through Suez Canal
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16 Oct 1973 Maynard Jackson elected 1st black Mayor of Atlanta
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16 Oct 1973 Monks Heng Yo and Heng Ju, start 1000 mile SF to Seattle pilgrimage
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16 Oct 1973 Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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16 Oct 1973 Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
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16 Oct 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.
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16 Oct 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.
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16 Oct 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.
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16 Oct 1976 Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
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16 Oct 1976 Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 min 54 sec
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16 Oct 1978 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon
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16 Oct 1978 Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs. Pakistan at Faisalabad
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16 Oct 1978 Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
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16 Oct 1978 Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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16 Oct 1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II
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16 Oct 1980 "Brigadoon" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 133 performances
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16 Oct 1981 2nd Dutch government of Van Agt resigns
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16 Oct 1982 Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins
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16 Oct 1982 Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
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16 Oct 1982 Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel
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16 Oct 1983 "Zorba" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 362 performances
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16 Oct 1983 Baltimore Orioles beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 3 in 80th World Series
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16 Oct 1984 Baboon heart transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl
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16 Oct 1984 The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.
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16 Oct 1984 Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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16 Oct 1984 Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins the Nobel Peace Prize
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16 Oct 1985 Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals win their league championships
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16 Oct 1985 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
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16 Oct 1985 Challenger vehicle moves to the launch pad for STS 61A mission
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16 Oct 1985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip
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16 Oct 1986 "Raggedy Ann" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 5 performances
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16 Oct 1986 Marie Osmond marries Brian Blosil
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16 Oct 1986 Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
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16 Oct 1986 Armand Hammer returns to US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
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16 Oct 1986 US govt closes down due to budget problems
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16 Oct 1987 338,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record)
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16 Oct 1987 Dow Jones for 1st time falls more than 100 pts (108.35)
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16 Oct 1987 Mike Tyson TKOs Tyrell Biggs in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
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16 Oct 1987 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England
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16 Oct 1987 Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22' into a well shaft
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16 Oct 1988 "Smile Jamaica" concert for Hurricane Gilbert victims held in London
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16 Oct 1988 Orel Hirsheiser, 1st to pitch shutout in playoff andWorld Series
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16 Oct 1988 Orel Hirsheiser, 1st to pitch shutout in playoff & world series (World Series #85)
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16 Oct 1989 Bikenibau Paeniu installed as Premier of Tuvalu
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16 Oct 1989 Jan Syse becomes Premier of Norway
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16 Oct 1990 "Stand Up Tragedy" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 13 performances
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16 Oct 1990 Reds Eric Davis is 22nd player to homer in his 1st World Series at bat
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16 Oct 1990 US forces reach 200,000 in the Persian Gulf
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16 Oct 1991 George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 and himself and wounds 20 in Texas
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16 Oct 1991 Luby's shooting: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
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16 Oct 1991 US Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case
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16 Oct 1992 1,700th David Letterman Show
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16 Oct 1993 General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan President
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16 Oct 1993 IRA bomb attack on fish and chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed
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16 Oct 1993 Anti-Nazism riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
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16 Oct 1994 Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), suffers a stroke
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16 Oct 1995 Allan Donald takes 8-71 as South Africa defeat Zimbabwe
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16 Oct 1995 Brian Lara scores 169 in Sharjah ODI versus Sri Lanka
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16 Oct 1995 Million Man March held in Washington DC (over 800,000 black men attend)
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16 Oct 1995 ODI in Sharjah WI 7-333 in 50 overs beat Sri Lanka 329 all out
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16 Oct 1995 The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
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16 Oct 1995 The Skye Bridge is opened.
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16 Oct 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.
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16 Oct 1997 "Side Show, " opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 91 performances
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16 Oct 1998 Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
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16 Oct 2002 Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
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16 Oct 2006 Hawaii earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
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16 Oct 2012 The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered.
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16 Oct 2013 Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.
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