Page 7: Historical Events In October - 16

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

1980  On October - 16 carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83   

1981  On October - 16 moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66   

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

1984  Ken Carpenter, TV announcer (Lux Video Theater), dies at 84 on October - 16.   

1985  Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip(more power more power!!) on this day in history.   

1985  On this day in history claude Stroud, actor (Hobart-Ted Knight Show, Duke), dies at 78   

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

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  On this day in history jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22 feet into a well shaft   

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  US forces reach 200,000 in the Persian Gulf on October - 16.   

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

1991  George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas on October - 16.   

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

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

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

2012  Conflict in Maiduguri, Nigeria, leads to 24 militant deaths and several structures set ablaze on October - 16.   

2013  21 people are killed after a minibus hits a land mine in Nawa, Syria on this day in history.   

2014  New Zealand, Malaysia, Angola, Spain and Venezuela are elected to the United Nations Security Council on October - 16.   

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  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 October - 16.   

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

2018  On this day in history saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman denies knowledge of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi according to President Trump   

2018  On this day in history man Booker Prize is won by Anna Burns' "Milkman", the first winner from Northern Ireland   

2018  On October - 16 britain's Prince Harry and Meghan Duchess of Sussex begin their first royal tour visiting Australia and New Zealand   

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  King James II of Scotland (d. 1460) was born on October - 16.   

1483  On this day in history birth of gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)   

1535  On this day in history birth of niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)   

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

1663  On this day in history birth of prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)   

1679  Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer was born on October - 16.   

1708  Albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science) was born on October - 16.   

0775  Mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies on October - 16.   

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  On October - 16 death of louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death   

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

1553  Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1555  On this day in history death of hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boley, burned at stake at 80   

1570  Death of Baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered on October - 16.