Historical Events In October - 16

1922  On October - 16 max Bygraves, London, actor (Tom Brown's School Days)  

1923  Disney Company is founded on this day in history.  

1923  Disney Company founded on October - 16.  

1923  On this day in history bert Kaempfert, rocker  

1925  On October - 16 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.  

1925  Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution on October - 16.  

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

1925  On this day in history angela Lansbury, London England, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote)  

1926  US Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200 on this day in history.  

1926  On October - 16 mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed  

1927  Gus Yatron, (Rep-D-PA, 1969- ) on this day in history.  

1928  Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points on October - 16.  

1928  On this day in history mary Daly, American feminist  

1928  On this day in history septimus Kinneir, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies  

1929  Bill Green, (Rep-R-NY, 1978- ) on October - 16.  

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

1931  On this day in history trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops 1st  

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 this day in history.  

1939  Sugar rationing begins in Netherlands on October - 16.  

1939  Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer, dies at 63 on October - 16.  

1940  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1940  On October - 16 warsaw Ghetto established  

1940  Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army on this day in history.  

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

1941  General Hideki Tojo takes over as Japanese Premier on this day in history.  

1941  On October - 16 germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow  

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

1942  On October - 16 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 this day in history chicago opens new subway system  

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  King James II of Scotland (d. 1460) was born on October - 16.  

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

1535  Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585) was born on October - 16.  

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

1663  On October - 16 birth of prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)  

1679  On October - 16 birth of jan Dismas Zelenka, composer  

1708  On this day in history birth of albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science)  

0775  On October - 16 mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies  

1323  Amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74 on this day in history.  

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

1355  Death of Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death on this day in history.  

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

1553  On October - 16 lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81  

1555  Death of Hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boley, burned at stake at 80 on this day in history.  

1570  On this day in history death of baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered