Page 5: 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 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  On October - 16 texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution   

1925  Peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact) on October - 16.   

1925  Angela Lansbury, London England, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote) on this day in history.   

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

1926  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1928  On October - 16 mary Daly, American feminist   

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 October - 16.   

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

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

1939  Sugar rationing begins in Netherlands on this day in history.   

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

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

1940  On this day in history lottery for first US WW II draftees held; #158 was drawn 1st   

1940  On this day in history warsaw Ghetto established   

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 this day in history general Hideki Tojo takes over as Japanese Premier.   

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

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

1942  12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed on this day in history.   

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

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

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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 October - 16 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  Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer was born on October - 16.   

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

0775  On this day in history mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies   

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

1333  Nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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 October - 16 death of baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered