Page 8: Historical Events In October - 16

2018  Canada legalises the sale and use of cannabis, becoming the second country in the world to do so, after Uruguay in 2013   

2019  Netflix reveals its most popular original movie was Sandra Bullock 's "Bird Box" and TV series "Stranger Things" for the year.   

2021  The Lucy spacecraft is launched by NASA, the inaugural mission to explore the Trojan asteroids   

2024  Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas, is killed in a gunfight with Israeli forces in Rafah.   

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1396  William de la pole: 1st duke of suffolk, english soldier   

1430  King james ii of scotland: King james ii of scotland (d. 1460)   

1483  Gasparo contarini: Italian diplomat and cardinal   

1535  Niwa nagahide: Japanese warlord   

1605  Charles c dassoucy: French writer/singer   

1663  Prince eugene of savoy: French-born austrian general   

1679  Jan dismas zelenka: Composer   

1708  Albrecht von haller: Switz, experimental physiology (acad of science)   

0775  Mansur: Kalief of abbasiden,   

1323  Amadeus v the great: Count of flanders/savoy,   

1333  Nicolaas v: [pietro rainalducci], italian anti-pope (1328-30),   

1355  Louis: King of sicily, felled by the black death   

1473  Reinoud ii van brederode: Viscount of utrecht,   

1553  Lucas cranach sr: German painter,   

1555  Hugh latimer: Royal chaplain of anna boley, burned at stake at 80   

1570  Baron van montigny: Dutch earl of horne, murdered