Historical Events In October - 16

1978  On October - 16 dan Dailey, dancer/actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor & JJ), dies at 63  

1980  Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83 on October - 16.  

1981  Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

1982  On this day in history 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  George Liberace, violinist (Liberace Show), dies at 72 on October - 16.  

1984  Bishop Desmond Tutu awarded the Nobel peace prize on October - 16.  

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  On this day in history intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip(more power more power!!)  

1985  Claude Stroud, actor (Hobart-Ted Knight Show, Duke), dies at 78 on this day in history.  

1986  US govt closes down due to budget problems on this day in history.  

1986  On this day in history arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist, dies at 65  

1987  On this day in history 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England  

1987  Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22 feet into a well shaft on this day in history.  

1987  On this day in history dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75  

1989  On October - 16 cornel Wilde, actor (Saadia, Comic, Beach Red, Gargoyles), dies at 74  

1990  On October - 16 uS forces reach 200,000 in the Persian Gulf  

1990  Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at 71 on October - 16.  

1991  On this day in history george Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas  

2005  U.S. Helicopters and warplanes bomb two villages near Ramadi in western Iraq, killing about 70 people on October - 16.  

2006  The last MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) was decommissioned on this day in history.  

2011  2011 Nikki Reed weds Paul McDonald in Malibu on this day in history.  

2012  On October - 16 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  On this day in history iraqi army seizes control of oil-rich Kirkuk, from Kurdish peshmerga  

2017  On October - 16 storm formed from Hurricane Ophelia lashes Ireland, killing 3 people  

2017  On this day in history 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  

2017  Panama Papers Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia killed in a suspicious car bomb in Malta on October - 16.  

2018  On October - 16 saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman denies knowledge of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi according to President Trump  

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 this day in history.  

2018  On this day in history chairman of China's Xinjiang’s government defends its detention camps for Uighur Muslims saying they provided “vocational education and training”  

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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 October - 16 birth of king James II of Scotland (d. 1460)  

1483  Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542) was born on this day in history.  

1535  Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585) was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1333  On this day in history 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 this day in history lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81  

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

1570  On October - 16 death of baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered