This Day in History for 16th October

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 184

456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire.
1311 - Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens
1492 - Columbus' fleet anchors at "Fernandina" (Long Island, Bahamas)
1502 - Storm ravages Friese coast
1551 - English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset re-arrested
1600 - Olivier van Noorts ships reach Philippines
1674 - Emperor Leopold I fires chancellor Furst Wenzel Lobkowitz
1710 - British troops occupies Port Royal, Nova Scotia
1757 - Austrian troops occupy Berlin
1775 - Portland, Maine burned by British
1780 - Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont last major raid of the American Revolutionary War.
1781 - Washington takes Yorktown
1793 - Battle of Wattignies.
1795 - M von Böhms "Oorlogscantate" premieres
1813 - Battle at Leipzig (Napoleon vs Prussia, Austria & Russia)
1829 - Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)
1834 - Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster (parliament) in London is burnt down.
1841 - Queens University in Kingston is chartered
1843 - Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
1846 - Dentist William T Morton demonstrates effectiveness of ether
1847 - Charlotte Bronte's book "Jane Eyre" published
1848 - 1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
1849 - Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania
1849 - British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras
1852 - Dutch government recognize Catholics right to organize
1859 - John Brown leads 21 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va
1861 - Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
1863 - Grant is given command of Union forces in West
1867 - Alaska adopts Gregorian calendar, crosses intl date line
1869 - Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing
1875 - 1st Quebec vs Ontario football game, Ontario wins
1875 - Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1876 - Race riot at Cainhoy SC (5 whites & 1 black killed)
1882 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1900 - Queen Wilhelmina leaves duke Heinrich "Henry" von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1903 - Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia
1904 - Russian Baltic fleet departs to Port Arthur
1905 - The Partition of Bengal (India) occurred.
1907 - Belasco Theater opens at 111 W 44th St NYC
1907 - David Belasco's "Grand Army Man," premieres in NYC
1908 - Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as Esquimoux
1909 - Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1909 - Pirates beat Tigers 4 games to 3 in 6th World Series
1912 - Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," premieres
1912 - Boston beats NY Giants, 4 games to 3 with a tie in 9th World Series
1913 - Booth Theater opens at 222 W 44th St NYC
1915 - Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria
1916 - Dodger manager Wilbert Robinson given $5,000 bonus
1916 - Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (46 Amboy St, Bkln)
1916 - T E Lawrence (of Arabia) meets with Fasal Hoessein
1921 - Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, & Bill Piercy defy Landis ban on World Series
1921 - Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin-only mid-game coaching change in NFL history
1923 - Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded
1923 - John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
1925 - Peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact)
1925 - Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
1926 - Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed
1926 - Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200
1928 - Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points
1931 - Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops 1st
Chinese Prime Minister Mao Tse-Tung 1934 - Mao Tse-tung & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March
1936 - Lou Gehrig, is voted AL MVP by BBWAA
1939 - Sugar rationing begins in Netherlands
1940 - Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army
1940 - Lottery for 1st US WW II draftees held; #158 drawn 1st
1940 - Warsaw Ghetto forms
1941 - "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers
1941 - Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow
1941 - Romanian Legionnaires enter Odessa Russia
1942 - Aaron Copland/de Milles ballet "Rodeo," premieres in NYC
1942 - Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
1942 - Natl Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services
1943 - Anti Jewish riot in Rome
1943 - Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new subway system
1943 - Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz
1943 - US 1st Army establishes headquarter in Bristol
1944 - Hungary: Horthy government falls/nazi count Szalasi becomes premier
1945 - UN's Food & Agriculture Organization comes into existence
1946 - 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
1948 - "Red Mill" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 831 performances
1948 - Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir
1949 - WDAF TV channel 4 in Kansas City, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 - The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1952 - Pakistan's 1st Test starts, v India at Delhi
1952 - Woolworth's at Powell & Market (SF) opens
Dictator Fidel Castro 1953 - Fidel Castro sentenced to 15 years (Havana)
1956 - "Love Me Tender" with Elvis Presley premieres
1956 - William J Brennan Jr becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1957 - Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits Williamsburg Virginia
1957 - USAF sends 2 aluminium bullets into space
1958 - Benjamin Britten's "Nocturne," premieres
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1960 - NL votes to admit Houston & NY to league
1962 - Byron R White becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1962 - Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
1962 - KTXT TV channel 5 in Lubbock, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - Yanks (20th championship) beat SF Giants 4 games to 3 in World Series
1962 - NY Yankees appear in 12 & win 9 of last 14 World Series
1963 - 2 secret US military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral
1963 - NY newspaper "Mirror" last edition

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 223

1396 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)
1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1483 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
1605 - Charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer
1663 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)
1679 - Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer
1708 - Albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science)
1710 - Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
1714 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
1723 - Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer
1726 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
1729 - Pierre van Maldere, composer
1751 - Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia (d. 1805)
1754 - Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804-07) (d. 1844)
1758 - Noah Webster, West Hartford, Connecticut,lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), (d. 1843)
1762 - Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina (1804-06) and U.S. Secretary of Navy (1809-12) (d. 1816)
1765 - Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer
1789 - William Burton, Governor of Delaware (1859-63) (d. 1866)
Lexicographer Noah Webster (1758) 1795 - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
1802 - Isaac Murphy, Governor of Arkansas (1864-68) (d. 1882)
1806 - William Pitt Fessenden, Secy Treas (Union), died in 1869
1811 - Gaetano Capocci, composer
1815 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
1816 - William Preston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
1819 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886)
1821 - Albert Franz Doppler, composer
1825 - Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Brig Genl (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1826 - Piotr Studzinski, composer
1830 - Ferdinand van der Haeghen, Flemish librarian/bibliography
1832 - George Crockett Strong, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1832 - Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexico, writer/diplomat
1837 - John Francis Barnett, composer
1840 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
1841 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
1849 - Arnold Krug, composer
1849 - Charles Harford Lloyd, composer
1851 - James Ten Eyck, champion rower/coach (Ten Eyck Trophy namesake)
1854 - Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist
Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde (1854) 1854 - Oscar Wilde, [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray), (d. 1900)
1855 - Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian
1855 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
1861 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
1863 - Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary (Nobel 1925)
1866 - Pieter J Kromsigt, theologist/publicist (Troffel & Sword)
1868 - Franz X Ritter von Epp, German general (China)
1870 - Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist
1878 - Carlos Pedrell, composer
1878 - Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
1883 - Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (d. 1973)
1884 - Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
1885 - Dorando di Desiderio Pietri, Italian marathoner (Olympic-DQ gold-1908)
1886 - Armin T Wegner, writer
1886 - David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st PM of Israel (1948-53, 55)
1888 - Eugene O'Neill, NYC, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936)
1888 - Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
1890 - Paul Strand, NYC, photographer (Native Land-1942)
1890 - Maria Goretti, Italian saint (d. 1902)
1896 - Edmond van Dooren, Flemish painter
1897 - Harrison Kerr, composer
1897 - Louis de Cazenave, France's oldest living man
1898 - Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR
1898 - William O Douglas, Maine, 81st Supreme Court justice (1939-75)
1900 - Lloyd Corrigan, SF, actor (Papa Dodger-Willy, Prof McKillup-Hank)
1900 - [Leon] Goose Goslin, baseball hall of famer (AL bat champ 1928)
1900 - Edward Ardizzone, artist and illustrator (d. 1979)
1900 - Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
1903 - Mario Pilati, composer
1903 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
1904 - Reginald Dixon, Sheffield, Britain, theatre organist, (d. 1985)
1905 - Rex Bell, Chicago, cowboy actor (Cowboys & Injuns)/lt-gov (Nevada)
1905 - Wild Bill Elliott, Pattonsburg MO, actor (Beyond the Sacramento)
1906 - Dino Buzzati, writer
1906 - George Martin Lott Jr, tennis champ (1931 US Open runner-up)
1907 - Roger Vailland, French author (La Novice, Et Mourir de Plasir)
1908 - Enver Hoxha, post-war leader of Albania (1944-85)
1910 - William Leonard Reed, composer
1913 - Alice Pearce, NYC, comedienne/actress (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched)
1913 - Cesar Bresgen, Austrian composer/organist
1914 - Christian J Modeste, gypsey king
1916 - George Turner, Australian author (d. 1997)
1917 - Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
1918 - Bill Nichols, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- )
1919 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
1921 - Linda Darnell, Dallas, Tx, actress (Unfaithfully Yours, 2nd Chance)
1921 - Michael Conrad, Washington Hgts NY, actor (Delvecchio, Hill St Blues)
1922 - Max Bygraves, London, actor (Tom Brown's School Days)
1922 - Robert Urquhart, actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed, Dark Avenger)
1923 - Bert Kaempfert, rocker
Actress Angela Lansbury (1925) 1925 - Angela Lansbury, London England, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote)
1925 - Daniel J Evans, (Sen-R-WA, 1983- )
1925 - Lorraine Sweeny, communications specialist
1927 - Gus Yatron, (Rep-D-PA, 1969- )
1927 - Lee Montague, London England, actor (Uncle Sasha-Holocaust)
1927 - Peter Brinson, dance educationalist
1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 - Mary Daly, American feminist
1928 - Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress
1929 - Bill Green, (Rep-R-NY, 1978- )
1929 - Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 5 of 5

1965 - Singer Leslie Uggams marries Grahame Pratt in NYC
1986 - Marie Osmond marries Brian Blosil
1992 - Author J. K. Rowling (27) weds Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes
2004 - Actor Marlon Brando's son Christian Brando (46) weds Deborah Presley at The Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas
2011 - Actress, screenwriter and model Nikki Reed (24) weds singer-songwriter Paul McDonald (27) at a private ranch in Malibu, California

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

1924 - American writer ("Gone with the Wind") Margaret Mitchell divorces 1st husband Berrien (Red) Upshaw

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 139

775 - Mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies
1323 - Amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74
1333 - Nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies
1355 - Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death
1473 - Reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies
1553 - Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81
1555 - Hugh Latimer, English bishop and royal chaplain, burned at the stake as one of the Oxford Martyrs at 80
1555 - Nicholas Ridley, English theologist/bishop of Rochester, burned at the stake as an Oxford martyr
1570 - Baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered
1591 - Gregory XIV, [Niccolo Sfondrati], Italian Pope, dies at 56
1594 - William Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62
1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59
1628 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
1649 - Isaac van Ostade, painter, buried
1655 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
1680 - Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)
1688 - Philips Koninck, painter/etcher, buried at 68
1690 - Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43
1694 - Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62
1726 - Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer, dies at 77
1750 - Silvius Leopold Weiss, composer, dies at 64
1755 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725)
1774 - Robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies
1781 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)
1791 - Grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris, dies
Queen of France Marie Antoinette (1793) 1793 - Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded at 37
1793 - John Hunter, eminent doctor and philosopher (b. 1728
1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
1799 - Antoine-Frederic Gresnick, composer, dies at 44
1810 - Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)
1814 - Juan Jose Landaeta, composer, dies at 34
1817 - Manuel C Piar, Curacaos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies
1822 - Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian ballet dancer (b. 1724)
1836 - Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer, dies at 33
1849 - George Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies
1862 - George Burgwyn Anderson, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 31
1865 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)
1867 - Salomon J Rappoport, Czech rabbi (Ereg miliem), dies
1877 - John Zwijsen, archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 83
1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
1880 - Edward Wolff, composer, dies at 64
1888 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
1891 - Sarah Winnemucca, indian scout, dies
1893 - Carlo Pedrotti, composer, dies at 75
1893 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)
1909 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
1916 - Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73
1918 - Felix Arndt, composer, dies at 29
1919 - Charles Harford Lloyd, composer, dies on 70th birthday
1920 - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer/conductor (Artemis), dies at 56
1928 - Septimus Kinneir, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies
1937 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
1939 - Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer, dies at 63
1942 - 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed
1944 - Eric Westberg, composer, dies at 52
1944 - John Eigenhuis, writer (The Dike), dies at 78
1946 - Alfred G Jodl, Col-Gen/German staff chief weather authority, hanged
1946 - Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s), hanged at 54
1946 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi (SS), hanged
1946 - Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Granville Ransome Bantock, English composer/conductor, dies at 78
1946 - Hans Franc, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal, hanged
1946 - Wilhelm Keitel, German fieldmarshal, hanged
1946 - Hermann Wilhelm Goering, German SA-leader, commits suicide at 53
1946 - Nuremberg trial execut
1948 - Henry Foley, cricketer (one Test for NZ, scored 2 & 2), dies
1949 - Hale Ascher VanderCook, composer, dies at 85
1951 - Liaquat Ali Khan, PM of Pakistan (1947-51), assassinated by Said Akbar
1956 - Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (b. 1873)
Military Leader George Marshall (1959) 1959 - George Marshall, US army general, dies at 78
1962 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (Water & Dreams), dies at 78
1966 - George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)
1968 - Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914)
1972 - Leo G Carroll, actor (Topper, Man From Uncle), dies at 80
1972 - Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana (b. 1914)
1973 - Gene Krupa, US swing drummer (Sing Sing Sing), dies at 64
1974 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, noted Carnatic musician (b. 1895)
1977 - Michael Balcon, producer, dies at 81
1978 - Dan Dailey, dancer/actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor & JJ), dies at 63
1979 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)
1980 - Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83
1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66
1981 - Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies
1981 - William Holden, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 63
1982 - Jacov Gotovac, composer, dies at 86
1982 - Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini), dies at 67
1983 - George Liberace, violinist (Liberace Show), dies at 72
1983 - Kelso, American racehorse (b. 1957)
1984 - Ken Carpenter, TV announcer (Lux Video Theater), dies at 84
1984 - Peggy Ann Garner, actress (Ford Theater), dies at 53 of cancer
1985 - Claude Stroud, actor (Hobart-Ted Knight Show, Duke), dies at 78
1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist, dies at 65
1986 - C Wttewaall van Stoetwegen, CHU Member of Dutch parliament, dies at 85
1987 - Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75
1989 - Cornel Wilde, actor (Saadia, Comic, Beach Red, Gargoyles), dies at 74
1990 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at 71
1990 - Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American classical pianist (b. 1914)