Page 7: Historical Events In October - 16
Saturday, 18 January 2025
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 this day in history.
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 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 October - 16 ken Carpenter, TV announcer (Lux Video Theater), dies at 84
1985 On this day in history intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip(more power more power!!)
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 On October - 16 arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist, dies at 65
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 this day in history.
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 this day in history.
1990 On October - 16 uS forces reach 200,000 in the Persian Gulf
1990 On this day in history art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at 71
1991 On October - 16 george Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas
2005 On October - 16 u.S. Helicopters and warplanes bomb two villages near Ramadi in western Iraq, killing about 70 people.
2006 On October - 16 the last MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) was decommissioned.
2011 On October - 16 2011 Nikki Reed weds Paul McDonald in Malibu
2012 Conflict in Maiduguri, Nigeria, leads to 24 militant deaths and several structures set ablaze on this day in history.
2013 21 people are killed after a minibus hits a land mine in Nawa, Syria on October - 16.
2014 New Zealand, Malaysia, Angola, Spain and Venezuela are elected to the United Nations Security Council on this day in history.
2017 Iraqi army seizes control of oil-rich Kirkuk, from Kurdish peshmerga on this day in history.
2017 Storm formed from Hurricane Ophelia lashes Ireland, killing 3 people on this day in history.
2017 On this day in history 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 Panama Papers Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia killed in a suspicious car bomb in Malta on this day in history.
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 Man Booker Prize is won by Anna Burns' "Milkman", the first winner from Northern Ireland on October - 16.
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 this day in history.