Page 5: Historical Events In October - 16

1922  Max Bygraves, London, actor (Tom Brown's School Days) on October - 16.   

1923  Disney Company is founded on this day in history.   

1923  Disney Company founded on this day in history.   

1923  Bert Kaempfert, rocker on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1925  Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution on this day in history.   

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

1925  On October - 16 angela Lansbury, London England, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote)   

1926  On October - 16 uS Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200   

1926  Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed on this day in history.   

1927  Gus Yatron, (Rep-D-PA, 1969- ) on October - 16.   

1928  On this day in history mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points   

1928  On this day in history mary Daly, American feminist   

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

1929  On October - 16 bill Green, (Rep-R-NY, 1978- )   

1931  On this day in history trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd kills her first victim   

1931  Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops 1st on October - 16.   

1934  On October - 16 mao Tse-tung & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March   

1936  Lou Gehrig, is voted AL MVP by BBWAA on October - 16.   

1939  On this day in history sugar rationing begins in Netherlands   

1939  On this day in history carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer, dies at 63   

1940  On October - 16 benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named first black general in regular army   

1940  Lottery for first US WW II draftees held; #158 was drawn 1st on October - 16.   

1940  Warsaw Ghetto established on this day in history.   

1940  On October - 16 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 October - 16.   

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

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

1942  On October - 16 aaron Copland/de Milles ballet "Rodeo," premieres in NYC   

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

1943  Chicago opens new subway system on this day in history.   

1943  The Navy accepted its first helicopter, a Sikorsky YR-4B (HNS-1), at Bridgeport, Connecticut on this day in history.   

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1396  William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450) was born on October - 16.   

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 this day in history birth of charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer   

1663  Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736) was born on October - 16.   

1679  On this day in history birth of jan Dismas Zelenka, composer   

1708  Albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science) was born on October - 16.   

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

1323  Amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74 on October - 16.   

1333  On October - 16 nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies   

1355  On October - 16 death of louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death   

1473  Reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies on October - 16.   

1553  Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81 on October - 16.   

1555  On this day in history 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.