16 October

The 16t o October is the 289t day o the year (290t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 76 days bidin.

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Events

Damaged biggin in Hampshire efter the storm o 1987

1995: The Skye Brig

• 1793 - Execution o Marie Antoinette on the guillotine.
• 1834 - Fire o the Palace o Wastmeenster.
• 1940 - The Warsaw Ghetto is creatit.
• 1946 - Nazi war criminals convictit in the Nuremberg Trials are executit.
• 1963 - Ludwig Erhard succeeds Konrad Adenauer as Chancellor o Wast Germany.
• 1964 - The Fowkrepublic o Cheenae detonates its first nuclear wappen.
• 1970 - Anwar Sadat is electit Preses o Egyp.
• 1978 - Pape John Paul II is electit.
• 1984 - Desmond Tutu wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1987 - A big storm hits the sooth o Ingland an the North o Fraunce.
• 1994 - Maist voters in Finland support jynin the European Union in a referendum.
• 1995 - The Skye Brig is opened, connectin the Isle o Skye tae mainland Scotland.
• 1996 - The Unitit Kinrick Govrenment propales a ban on handguns.
• 2002 - The new Library in Alexandria, Egyp, opens.
• 2013 - Erna Solberg becomes the 2nt female Prime meenister o Norawa.
• 2017 - The remainder o Hurricane Ophelia sweeps across the Republic o Ireland, Northren Ireland an Scotland.
• 2017 - Maltese blogger an jurnalist Daphne Caruana Galizia is murthert in a car bomb attack.

Births

Angela Lansbury

• 1430 – James II o Scotland (d. 1460)
• 1841 – Itō Hirobumi, Japanese politeecian, 1st Prime meenister o Japan (d. 1909)
• 1854 – Oscar Wilde, Erse author, poet, an playwricht (d. 1900)
• 1863 – Austen Chamberlain, Inglis politeecian, Chancellor o the Exchequer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
• 1886 – David Ben-Gurion, Pols-Israeli politeecian, 1st Prime meenister o Israel (d. 1973)
• 1888 – Eugene O'Neill, American playwricht (d. 1953)
• 1890 – Michael Collins, Erse politeecian (d. 1922)
• 1908 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian general an politeecian, Prime meenister o Albanie (d. 1985)
• 1925 – Angela Lansbury, Inglis-American actress, sangster, an producer
• 1927 – Günter Grass, German writer (d. 2015)
• 1929 – Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
• 1936 – Andrei Chikatilo, Ukrainian-Roushie serial killer (d. 1994)
• 1943 – Tommy Sheppard, Scots fitbawer (d. 2017)
• 1958 – Tim Robbins, American actor, director, an screenwriter
• 1959 – John Whittingdale, Inglis politeecian
• 1962 – Flea, Australie-American muisicker
• 1977 – John Mayer, American sangster, sangwriter, guitarist an producer
• 1983 – Loreen, Swadis sangster an producer
• 1983 – Philipp Kohlschreiber, German tennis player
• 1986 – Inna, Romanie sangster
• 1990 – Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir, Dens-Icelandic sangster
• 1991 – Jedward, Erse pop sangsters
• 1993 – Caroline Garcia, French tennis player
• 1997 – Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player

Daiths

• 1591 – Pape Gregory XIV (b. 1535)
• 1774 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (b. 1750)
• 1793 – Marie Antoinette, Queen o Fraunce (b. 1755)
• 1946 – Nuremberg trial executions o the Main Trial:
  • Hans Frank, German lawyer an politeecian (b. 1900)
  • Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer an politeecian, German Meenister o the Interior (b. 1877)
  • Alfred Jodl, German general (b. 1890)
  • Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrick SS officer (b. 1903)
  • Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (b. 1882)
  • Alfred Rosenberg, Estonie airchitect an politeecian (b. 1893)
• 1959 – George Marshall, Unitit States Secretar o State (b. 1880)
• 1981 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli militar an politeecian (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Deborah Kerr, Scots actress an sangster (b. 1921)
• 2017 – Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese blogger an jurnalist (b. 1964)
• 2020 – Samuel Paty, French history-geographie teacher, murthert bi an Islamist terrorist (b. 1973)

Halidays

• Boss' Day (Canada an Unitit States)
• Warld Food Day
• Teacher's Day (Poland an Chile)

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