October 16 in history
Events on October 16
Notable events that happened on October 16 in past years.
- 2017
Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss.
Wikipedia article: Hurricane Ophelia (2017) - 1996
Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.
Wikipedia article: Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores disaster - 1984
Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Wikipedia article: Desmond Tutu - 1973
Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Wikipedia article: Henry Kissinger - 1968
Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Wikipedia article: Yasunari Kawabata - 1951
The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
Wikipedia article: Liaquat Ali Khan - 1943
Holocaust in Italy: Raid on the Roman Ghetto.
Wikipedia article: Raid on the Roman Ghetto - 1923
Walt Disney and his brother, Roy, found the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, today known as The Walt Disney Company.
Wikipedia article: Walt Disney - 1891
A diplomatic incident between the United States and Chile occurred after U.S. sailors were attacked in Valparaíso, nearly leading to war.
Wikipedia article: Baltimore crisis - 1869
Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
Wikipedia article: Girton College, Cambridge - 1836
Great Trek: Afrikaner voortrekkers repulse a Matabele attack, but lose their livestock.
Wikipedia article: Battle of Vegkop - 1813
The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon in the four-day Battle of Leipzig.
Wikipedia article: Battle of Leipzig - 1780
The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.
Wikipedia article: Great Hurricane of 1780 - 1367
Pope Urban V enters Rome, the first pope to do so in more than fifty years since the beginning of the Avignon Papacy.
- 456
Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
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