Historical Events In October - 16
Friday, 26 April 2024
1978 Dan Dailey, dancer/actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor & JJ), dies at 63 on this day in history.
1980 Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83 on this day in history.
1981 Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66 on October - 16.
1982 On October - 16 mt Palomar Observatory first to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
1982 Jacov Gotovac, composer, dies at 86 on this day in history.
1983 On October - 16 george Liberace, violinist (Liberace Show), dies at 72
1984 On October - 16 bishop Desmond Tutu awarded the Nobel peace prize
1984 On this day in history desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins the Nobel Peace Prize
1984 On October - 16 ken Carpenter, TV announcer (Lux Video Theater), dies at 84
1985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip(more power more power!!) on this day in history.
1985 On October - 16 claude Stroud, actor (Hobart-Ted Knight Show, Duke), dies at 78
1986 US govt closes down due to budget problems on October - 16.
1986 Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist, dies at 65 on October - 16.
1987 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England on October - 16.
1987 Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22 feet into a well shaft on this day in history.
1987 On October - 16 dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75
1989 Cornel Wilde, actor (Saadia, Comic, Beach Red, Gargoyles), dies at 74 on October - 16.
1990 On this day in history uS forces reach 200,000 in the Persian Gulf
1990 On October - 16 art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at 71
1991 George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas on this day in history.
2005 U.S. Helicopters and warplanes bomb two villages near Ramadi in western Iraq, killing about 70 people on this day in history.
2006 The last MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) was decommissioned on this day in history.
2011 On October - 16 2011 Nikki Reed weds Paul McDonald in Malibu
2012 On this day in history conflict in Maiduguri, Nigeria, leads to 24 militant deaths and several structures set ablaze
2013 On October - 16 21 people are killed after a minibus hits a land mine in Nawa, Syria
2014 New Zealand, Malaysia, Angola, Spain and Venezuela are elected to the United Nations Security Council on this day in history.
2017 Iraqi army seizes control of oil-rich Kirkuk, from Kurdish peshmerga on October - 16.
2017 On October - 16 storm formed from Hurricane Ophelia lashes Ireland, killing 3 people
2017 Findings published of neutron star collision (17 August), the first cosmic event seen in gravitational waves and light. Confirms heavy elements such as gold the result of such collisions on this day in history.
2017 On October - 16 panama Papers Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia killed in a suspicious car bomb in Malta
2018 Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman denies knowledge of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi according to President Trump on October - 16.
2018 On October - 16 man Booker Prize is won by Anna Burns' "Milkman", the first winner from Northern Ireland
2018 Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan Duchess of Sussex begin their first royal tour visiting Australia and New Zealand on October - 16.
2018 On October - 16 chairman of China's Xinjiang’s government defends its detention camps for Uighur Muslims saying they provided “vocational education and trainingâ€