On this day in History - Oct. 16

0456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire
1311 - A Ordem dos cavaleiros Templários é extinta. Em Portugal, será transformada, por ordem de D. Dinis, na Ordem de Cristo, continuando a ser governada pelo mesmo Mestre.
1430 - King James II of Scotland was born (d. 1460)
1483 - Gasparo Contarini was born (d. 1542). Italian diplomat and cardinal
1535 - Niwa Nagahide was born (d, 1585). Japanese warlord
1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder dies (b. 1472). German painter.
1555 - Hugh Latimer dies martyred. English protestant
1591 - Pope Gregory XIV dies (b. 1535)
1594 - William Cardinal Allen dies (b. 1532). English Catholic cardinal
1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck dieds (b. 1562). Dutch composer
1628 - François de Malherbe dies (b. 1555). French poet and critic
1649 - Isaac van Ostade dies (b. 1621). Dutch painter.
1655 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies (b. 1591). Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist.
1663 - Eugene of Savoy was born (d. 1736). French-born Austrian general
1689 - Pietro Vitto Ottoboni, italian cardinal, is elected Pope Alexander VIII
1714 - Giovanni Arduino was born (d,. 1795). Italian geologist.
1750 - Sylvius Leopold Weiss dies (b. 1687). German composer and lutenist
1758 - Noah Webster was born . American lexicographer
1769 - Portugal: Concessão do título de marquês ao Conde de Oeiras.
1775 - Portland, Maine burned by the British
1781 - George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia
1781 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke dies (b. 1705). British naval officer
1793 - Marie Antoinette dies (executed) (b. 1755). Queen of France
1793 - Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1793 - Battle of Wattignies
1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy dies (b. 1726)
1813 - The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
1815 - Francis Lubbock was born (d. 1905).Governor of Texas
1834 - Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster in London is burnt down
1840 - Kuroda Kiyotaka was born (d. 1900). Japanese politician and prime minister
1841 - Prince Hirobumi Ito was born (d. 1909). Japanese governor of Korea
1841 - Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
1843 - Sir William Rowan Hamilton invents the concept of quaternions.
1847 - D. Maria Pia de Sabóia was born. Queen of Portugal.
1854 - Oscar Wilde was born (d. 1900). Irish writer
1859 - John Brown leads raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
1861 - J. B. Bury was born (d. 1927). Irish historian
1863 - Austen Chamberlain was born (d. 1937). English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1865 - Andrés Bello dies (b. 17814), Venezuelan poet, lawmaked, teacher, philosopher and sociologist
1869 - Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, discovered.
1869 - England's first residential college for women, Girton College, Cambridge, is founded.
1877 - Theodore Barrière dies (b. 1823). French dramatist.
1878 - Maxey Long was born. American athlete
1882 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1886 - David Ben-Gurion was born (d. 1973). First Prime Minister of Israel
1888 - Eugene O'Neill was born (d. 1953). American playwright. Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.
1888 - Paul Popenoe was born (d. 1979).American activist
1888 - John Wentworth dies (b. 1815). Mayor of Chicago
1890 - Michael Collins was born (d. 1922). Irish patriot
1890 - Paul Strand was born (d. 1975). American photographer.
1890 - Nascimento de Santa Maria Goretti . Beatificada em 1947 e canonizada em 1950.
1898 - William O. Douglas was born (d. 1980). U. S. Supreme Court Justice
1900 - Primo Conti was born (d. 1988). Italian painter.
1903 - Cecile de Brunhoff was born (d. 2003)., French storyteller
1904 - Armando Miranda was born. Portuguese writer and film director.
1906 - The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
1906 - Dino Buzzati was born. Italian writer and journalist.
1908 - Enver Hoxha was born (d. 1985). Albanian dictator
1912 - Auguste Beernaert dies. Belgian statesman who was awarded with the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize
1912 - Bulgarian pilots Radul Milkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the first bombing with an airplane in history.
1914 - Zahir Shah was born. King of Afghanistan
1919 - Kathleen Winsor was born (d. 2003). American writer.
1920 - Alberto Nepomuceno dies (b. 1864). Brazilian composer.
1925 - Angela Lansbury was born. English-born actress
1927 - Günter Grass was born. German novelist who was awarded with the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
1928 - Mary Daly was born. Feminist
1929 - Fernanda Montenegro was born. Brazilian actress.
1931 - Charles Colson was born. American Watergate conspirator
1933 - Ismael Montes dies. 26th President of Bolivia.
1934 - Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
1936 - Inauguração oficial do Aeroporto Santos Dumont, no Rio de Janeiro, o primeiro aeroporto civil brasileiro
1936 - Andrei Chikatilo was born. Russian serial killer
1936 - Agnaldo Timóteo was born. Brazilian singer.
1937 - Jean de Brunhoff dies (b. 1899)., French writer.
1938 - Nico was born. Musician (The Velvet Underground)
1940 - Barry Corbin was born. American actor
1940 - Dave DeBusschere was born (d. 2003). American basketball player.
1940 - Benjamin O. Davis Sr. named first African American general in the United States Army
1940 - Warsaw Ghetto established
1941 - Tim McCarver was born. baseball player and commentator
1943 - Fred Turner was born. Musician (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1945 - Criação da FAO (Organização das Nações Unidas para a Agricultura e a Alimentação)
1946 - Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg trials hanged.
1946 - Suzanne Somers was born. American actress
1946 - Hans Frank dies (b. 1900). German war criminal
1946 - Wilhelm Frick dies (b. 1877). German war criminal
1946 - Alfred Jodl dies (b. 1890). German military officer
1946 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner dies (b. 1903). Austrian SS officer
1946 - Wilhelm Keitel dies (b. 1882). German military officer
1946 - Joachim von Ribbentrop dies (b. 1893). German politician
1946 - Alfred Rosenberg dies (b. 1893). Nazi ideologist
1946 - Fritz Sauckel dies (b. 1892). German war criminal
1946 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart dies (b. 1894). Austrian Nazi leader
1946 - Julius Streicher dies (b. 1887). German propagandist
1947 - Bob Weir was born. American musician (The Grateful Dead)
1947 - Terry Griffiths was born. Welsh snooker player
1947 - Carlos Ott was born. Uruguayan architect.
1949 - Nikos Zakhiariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
1949 - Joan Manuel Gisbert was born. Spanish writer.
1951- The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi
1951- Liaquat Ali Khan dies (b. 1896). First Prime Minister of Pakistan
1952 - Boogie Mosson was born. American musician (P Funk)
1952 - Ron Taylor was born (d. 2002), American actor
1953 - Paulo Roberto Falcão was born. Brazilian footballer
1958 - Tim Robbins was born. American actor, director, and writer
1959 - Gary Kemp was born. British musician and actor
1959 - Erkki-Sven Tüür was born. Estonian composer
1959 - George C. Marshall dies (b. 1880). General and United States Secretary of State. Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
1962 - Gaston Bachelard dies (b. 1884). French philosopher and poet.
1962 - Flea (Michael Peter Balzary) was born. Australian musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky was born. Russian baritone
1964 - People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon
1965 - Steve Lamacq was born. British journalist and disc jockey
1966 - George O'Hara dies (b. 1899). American actor
1967 - Joan Baez arrested in Vietnam protest Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a peace demonstration as rallies take place across America to protest against the continuing war in Vietnam.
1968 - United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked out of the USA's team for performing a Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.
1968 - Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
1969 - United States - The "miracle" New York Mets win the World Series.
1970 - Anwar Sadat elected President of Egypt
1970 - Canada - In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act.
1970 - Mehmet Scholl was born in Karlsruhe. German footabll player (Bayern München)
1971 - Emilio Pettoruti dies. Argentine painter.
1972 - Anúncio oficial do fim do grupo Creedence Clearwater Revival
1972 - Rainbow, a British television programme for children, debuts.
1972 - Tomas Lindberg was born. Swedish Musician (At The Gates)
1972 - Hale Boggs dies (b. 1914). U.S. Congressman from Louisiana.
1972 - Leo G. Carroll dies (b. 1892). English actor
1973 - Gene Krupa dies (b. 1909). American musician
1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1974 - Maze prison goes up in flames: Three prison staff are in hospital and dozens of prisoners injured after rioting and fires at the Long Kesh Maze prison.
1974 - Paul Kariya was born. Canadian hockey player
1975 - Forças militares indonésias invadem o território timorense; algumas localidades da fronteira ocidental de Timor Leste são destruídas pelas forças invasoras.
1975 - The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
1977 - John Mayer was born. American musician
1978 - Karol Józef Wojtyła becomes Pope John Paul II 265th pope. Cardinals at the Vatican choose the first non-Italian Pope for more than 400 years.
1978 - Dan Dailey dies (b. 1913). American actor
1979 - Johan Borgen dies (b. 1903). Norwegian author
1980 - Sue Bird was born. American basketball player
1981 - Moshe Dayan dies (b. 1915). Israeli general and politician.
1982 - Adriano Correia de Oliveira dies. Portuguese singer and composer.
1983 - Jakov Gotovac dies (b. 1895). Croatian composer
1984 - Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize .
1985 - Portugal vence a Alemanha em casa desta por 1-0 com o famoso golo de Carlos Manuel e qualifica-se para a fase final do Campeonato do Mundo Mexico 1986.
1986 - Dean Burke was born. Interpreter; Presqu'ile Provincial Park
1986 - Arthur Grumiaux dies (b. 1921). Belgian violinist
1986 - A cidade de Barcelona é designada pelos miembros do COI como cenario dos Jogos Olímpicos de 1992. 1987 - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.
1989 - Cornel Wilde dies (b. 1915). American actor
1990 - Art Blakey dies (b. 1919). American jazz drummer
1991 - George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 19 in Luby's Cafeteria.
1991 - Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India.
1992 - Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson files a 1.4 million USD lawsuit against French tabloids for running topless photos taken of her on the French Riviera, including some of Texas millionaire John Bryan suckling on her toes.
1992 - Shirley Booth dies (b. 1898). American actress.
1993 - Paolo Bortoluzzi dies. Italian dancer and coreographer.
1994 - Portugal: Sete operários morrem numa chaminé da central termo-eléctrica de Setúbal.
1995 - The Million Man March occurs in Washington, DC.
1996 - 84 are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 soccer fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Mateo Flores Stadium in Guatemala City.
1996 - Eric Malpass dies (b. 1910). English novelist
1997 - James Michener dies. American writer
1998 - Jon Postel dies (b. 1943). American Internet pioneer
1998 - David Trimble e John Hume, os Principais artífices do processo de paz na Irlanda do Norte, são galardoados com o Prémio Nobel da Paz.
1999 - Jean Shepherd dies (b. 1921). American writer and actor
2000 - Mel Carnahan dies (b. 1934). American politician
2000 - InuYasha debuts in Japan
2001 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: U.S. warplanes mistakenly bomb International Red Cross warehouse in Kabul, Afghanistan .
2002 - Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
2003 - iTunes released for Windows XP and Windows 2000.
2003 - Stu Hart dies (b. 1915). Canadian professional wrestler
2003 - László Papp dies (b. 1926). Hungarian boxer
2003 - Avni Arbas dies (b. 1919). Turkish artist
2004 - Pierre Salinger dies (b. 1925). John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary.
2005 - The Millions More March occurs in Washington, DC.
R.C. Saints - Saint Hedwig of Andechs; Saint Margaret Marie Alacoque; Saint Gall
Also see October 16 (Easter Orthodox liturgics)
Bahá'í Faith – Feast of 'Ilm (Knowledge) - First day of the 12th month of the Bahá'í Calendar
United Nations - World Food Day
United States - World Food Prize Day, apparently a.k.a. Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Day in Iowa and Minnesota; National Feral Cat Day; Boss's Day