Historical Events In October - 16

1978  Dan Dailey, dancer/actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor & JJ), dies at 63 on October - 16.   

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 October - 16.   

1982  Mt Palomar Observatory first to detect Halley's comet on 13th return on October - 16.   

1982  On October - 16 jacov Gotovac, composer, dies at 86   

1983  George Liberace, violinist (Liberace Show), dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1984  Bishop Desmond Tutu awarded the Nobel peace prize on this day in history.   

1984  Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins the Nobel Peace Prize on this day in history.   

1984  On this day in history ken Carpenter, TV announcer (Lux Video Theater), dies at 84   

1985  Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip(more power more power!!) on October - 16.   

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 October - 16.   

1986  Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1987  On October - 16 175-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 October - 16.   

1987  Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1989  On this day in history cornel Wilde, actor (Saadia, Comic, Beach Red, Gargoyles), dies at 74   

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 October - 16.   

2011  On October - 16 2011 Nikki Reed weds Paul McDonald in Malibu   

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 October - 16.   

2017  Iraqi army seizes control of oil-rich Kirkuk, from Kurdish peshmerga on October - 16.   

2017  On this day in history storm formed from Hurricane Ophelia lashes Ireland, killing 3 people   

2017  On October - 16 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  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 this day in history man Booker Prize is won by Anna Burns' "Milkman", the first winner from Northern Ireland   

2018  On this day in history britain's Prince Harry and Meghan Duchess of Sussex begin their first royal tour visiting Australia and New Zealand   

2018  Chairman of China's Xinjiang’s government defends its detention camps for Uighur Muslims saying they provided “vocational education and training” on October - 16.   

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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 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 this day in history.   

1535  On October - 16 birth of niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)   

1605  Charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer was born on this day in history.   

1663  On October - 16 birth of prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)   

1679  On this day in history birth of jan Dismas Zelenka, composer   

1708  On October - 16 birth of albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science)   

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

1323  On October - 16 amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74   

1333  Nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies on October - 16.   

1355  On this day in history death of louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death   

1473  On October - 16 reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies   

1553  On this day in history lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81   

1555  Death of Hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boley, burned at stake at 80 on October - 16.   

1570  Death of Baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered on this day in history.