Historical Events In October - 16

1922  On this day in history max Bygraves, London, actor (Tom Brown's School Days)   

1923  On October - 16 disney Company is founded   

1923  Disney Company founded on October - 16.   

1923  On October - 16 bert Kaempfert, rocker   

1925  Germany Weimar Republic signs Lucarno agreement guaranteeing as equal partner with Western European states the frontiers of Western Europe and that no country will attack or invade the other on October - 16.   

1925  On October - 16 texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution   

1925  On this day in history peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact)   

1925  Angela Lansbury, London England, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote) on October - 16.   

1926  US Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200 on October - 16.   

1926  Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed on October - 16.   

1927  On October - 16 gus Yatron, (Rep-D-PA, 1969- )   

1928  On October - 16 mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points   

1928  Mary Daly, American feminist on October - 16.   

1928  Septimus Kinneir, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies on this day in history.   

1929  On this day in history bill Green, (Rep-R-NY, 1978- )   

1931  Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd kills her first victim on this day in history.   

1931  Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops 1st on this day in history.   

1934  Mao Tse-tung & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March on October - 16.   

1936  On October - 16 lou Gehrig, is voted AL MVP by BBWAA   

1939  Sugar rationing begins in Netherlands on October - 16.   

1939  Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1940  Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named first black general in regular army on this day in history.   

1940  On October - 16 lottery for first US WW II draftees held; #158 was drawn 1st   

1940  Warsaw Ghetto established on this day in history.   

1940  On this day in history benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army   

1941  "Gordo" comic strip first appears in newspapers on October - 16.   

1941  On October - 16 general Hideki Tojo takes over as Japanese Premier.   

1941  Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow on this day in history.   

1941  On October - 16 "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers   

1942  On this day in history cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills 40,000 south of Calcutta India   

1942  Aaron Copland/de Milles ballet "Rodeo," premieres in NYC on this day in history.   

1942  On October - 16 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed   

1943  On October - 16 chicago opens new subway system   

1943  On October - 16 the Navy accepted its first helicopter, a Sikorsky YR-4B (HNS-1), at Bridgeport, Connecticut   

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1396  On this day in history birth of william de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)   

1430  On this day in history birth of king James II of Scotland (d. 1460)   

1483  Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542) was born on October - 16.   

1535  On this day in history birth of niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)   

1605  On October - 16 birth of charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer   

1663  On this day in history birth of prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)   

1679  Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer was born on this day in history.   

1708  Albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science) was born on this day in history.   

0775  Mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies on this day in history.   

1323  On October - 16 amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74   

1333  Nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies on October - 16.   

1355  On this day in history death of louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death   

1473  Reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies on this day in history.   

1553  Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1555  On October - 16 death of hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boley, burned at stake at 80   

1570  Death of Baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered on October - 16.