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Birthday October 16, 1708 Albrecht von Haller, the father of experimental physiology |
Birthday October 16, 1758 Noah Webster, lexicographer |
Birthday October 16, 1792 Francisco Moraz n, (Liberal), president of Central America (1830-40) |
Birthday October 16, 1851 Psychopathic gunfighter Wild Bill Longley is born in Texas |
Birthday October 16, 1854 Oscar Wilde, (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) - Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray) |
Birthday October 16, 1863 Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign secretary (Nobel 1925) |
Birthday October 16, 1888 Eugene O'Neill, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms) (Nobel 1936) |
Birthday October 16, 1890 Paul Strand, photographer |
Birthday October 16, 1898 William O. Douglas, former Supreme Court justice |
Birthday October 16, 1908 Enver Hoxha, post-war leader of Albania |
Birthday October 16, 1921 Linda Darnell |
Birthday October 16, 1925 Angela Lansbury born |
Birthday October 16, 1925 Angela Lansbury, Actress (Murder She Wrote) |
Birthday October 16, 1927 Gunter Grass, German novelist, poet (The Tin Drum) |
Birthday October 16, 1931 Charles W. Colson, pres adviser |
Birthday October 16, 1946 Suzanne Somers, Actress (3's Co) in San Bruno Calif |
History October 16, 1773 Philadelphia Resolutions criticize Tea Act |
History October 16, 1775 Portland Maine burned by British. |
History October 16, 1781 Washington takes Yorktown |
History October 16, 1793 Marie-Antoinette is beheaded |
History October 16, 1793 Marie Antoinette beheaded in France. |
History October 16, 1846 Dentist William T. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether |
History October 16, 1849 British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras. |
History October 16, 1854 Lincoln speaks out against slavery |
History October 16, 1854 Oscar Wilde's birthday |
History October 16, 1859 John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry |
History October 16, 1859 John Brown leads group of 20 in a raid on Harper's Ferry Va. |
History October 16, 1861 Confederacy starts selling postage stamps |
History October 16, 1869 Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing |
History October 16, 1912 Fred Snodgrass drops ball and loses World Series |
History October 16, 1916 British soldier Henry Farr executed for cowardice |
History October 16, 1916 Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (Bkln) |
History October 16, 1921 Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin -- only mid-game coaching change in NFL history. |
History October 16, 1923 Disney Co founded |
History October 16, 1941 Gordo (by Gus Arriola) 1st appeared in newspapers |
History October 16, 1943 Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system. |
History October 16, 1946 Nazi war criminals executed |
History October 16, 1946 Alfred Rosenberg is executed |
History October 16, 1946 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials. |
History October 16, 1952 Woolworth's at Powell & Market (S.F.) opens. |
History October 16, 1957 Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip arrive in Virginia |
History October 16, 1958 Chevrolet introduces the El Camino |
History October 16, 1962 Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba |
History October 16, 1962 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 3 in the world series |
History October 16, 1964 China joins A-bomb club |
History October 16, 1964 Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia |
History October 16, 1964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power |
History October 16, 1968 Bombing halt discussed |
History October 16, 1969 Soyuz 6 returns to Earth |
History October 16, 1970 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser |
History October 16, 1971 Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in S.F. |
History October 16, 1973 Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize |
History October 16, 1973 Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
History October 16, 1976 Disco Duck hits the #1 spot on the U.S. pop chart |
History October 16, 1976 Soyuz 23 returns to Earth |
History October 16, 1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II. |
History October 16, 1981 Israel's General Moshe Dayan dies at 66 |
History October 16, 1982 Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins |
History October 16, 1982 Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel |
History October 16, 1982 Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return |
History October 16, 1984 Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu named Nobel Peace Prize winner |
History October 16, 1985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip. |
History October 16, 1986 Armand Hammer arrives back in US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb |
History October 16, 1987 18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued 58 hours after she fell 22 feet into a well shaft in Midland TX. |
History October 16, 1987 Baby Jessica rescued from a well as the world watches |
History October 16, 1987 175-kph winds cause blackout in London much of southern England. |
History October 16, 1991 Twenty-three diners massacred at Texas restaurant |
History October 16, 1996 Stampede kills 84 at World Cup match |
History October 16, 2011 IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon is killed in crash |