Page 5: Historical Events In October - 16

1922  On this day in history max Bygraves, London, actor (Tom Brown's School Days)   

1923  Disney Company is founded on this day in history.   

1923  Disney Company founded on this day in history.   

1923  Bert Kaempfert, rocker on October - 16.   

1925  Germany Weimar Republic signs Lucarno agreement guaranteeing as equal partner with Western European states the frontiers of Western Europe and that no country will attack or invade the other on this day in history.   

1925  Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution on October - 16.   

1925  On this day in history peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact)   

1925  Angela Lansbury, London England, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote) on October - 16.   

1926  On October - 16 uS Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200   

1926  On this day in history mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed   

1927  On this day in history gus Yatron, (Rep-D-PA, 1969- )   

1928  On October - 16 mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points   

1928  On this day in history mary Daly, American feminist   

1928  On this day in history septimus Kinneir, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies   

1929  On this day in history bill Green, (Rep-R-NY, 1978- )   

1931  Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd kills her first victim on this day in history.   

1931  Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops 1st on this day in history.   

1934  Mao Tse-tung & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March on this day in history.   

1936  On this day in history lou Gehrig, is voted AL MVP by BBWAA   

1939  On this day in history sugar rationing begins in Netherlands   

1939  Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1940  On this day in history benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named first black general in regular army   

1940  On this day in history lottery for first US WW II draftees held; #158 was drawn 1st   

1940  Warsaw Ghetto established on October - 16.   

1940  Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army on October - 16.   

1941  On this day in history "Gordo" comic strip first appears in newspapers   

1941  General Hideki Tojo takes over as Japanese Premier on this day in history.   

1941  Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow on October - 16.   

1941  On this day in history "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers   

1942  Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills 40,000 south of Calcutta India on October - 16.   

1942  On October - 16 aaron Copland/de Milles ballet "Rodeo," premieres in NYC   

1942  On October - 16 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed   

1943  Chicago opens new subway system on October - 16.   

1943  The Navy accepted its first helicopter, a Sikorsky YR-4B (HNS-1), at Bridgeport, Connecticut on this day in history.   

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1396  On October - 16 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 October - 16.   

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

1605  On October - 16 birth of charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer   

1663  On this day in history 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  Albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science) was born on this day in history.   

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

1323  Amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74 on October - 16.   

1333  Nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies on this day in history.   

1355  On October - 16 death of louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death   

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

1570  On this day in history death of baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered