History Events on October 16

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.

#Indictment_and_arrest_of_Augusto_Pinochet

Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

#Yasunari_Kawabata

The Council of Vienne convenes for the first time.

#Council_of_Vienne

William Rowan Hamilton invents quaternions, a three-dimensional system of complex numbers.

#William_Rowan_Hamilton

Nuremberg trials: Defendants in the Main Trial are executed.

#Nuremberg_trials

Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.

#Rahima_Banu

Simón Bolívar sentences Manuel Piar to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela.

#Manuel_Piar

Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.

#Pope_John_Paul_II

Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss.

#Hurricane_Ophelia_(2017)

The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".

#Cardiff_Giant

Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.

#Brigham_Young_University

Great Trek: Afrikaner voortrekkers repulse a Matabele attack, but lose their livestock.

#Battle_of_Vegkop

John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

#John_Brown's_raid_on_Harpers_Ferry

Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.

#Lao_Airlines_Flight_301

Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.

#Wu_Zetian

Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.

#Long_March

The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.

#Liaquat_Ali_Khan

Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, Portuguese Timor.

#Balibo_Five

The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened.

#Skye_Bridge

The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.

#Partition_of_Bengal_(1905)

The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon in the three-day Battle of Leipzig.

#Battle_of_Leipzig

The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.

#Turtle_Islands,_Tawi-Tawi

World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.

#World_War_II

War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.

#Battle_of_Wattignies

Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.

#1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute

The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.

#Great_Hurricane_of_1780

Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.

#Carlo_Gesualdo

French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed.

#Marie_Antoinette

The Wilhelm Voigt fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.

#Wilhelm_Voigt

George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20.

#Luby's_shooting

Henry Kissinger and Lê ??c Th? are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

#Henry_Kissinger

War of the Third Coalition: Napoleon surrounds the Austrian army at Ulm.

#Battle_of_Ulm

The Walt Disney Company is founded.

#The_Walt_Disney_Company

The novel Jane Eyre is published in London.

#Jane_Eyre

Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.

#Girton_College,_Cambridge

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria.

#Bibliotheca_Alexandrina

Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.

#Ricimer

The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the Greek Civil War.

#Greek_Civil_War

Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.

#Burning_of_Parliament

Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome

#Raid_of_the_Ghetto_of_Rome

Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.

#Margaret_Sanger

The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget.

#1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis

Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

#Desmond_Tutu

The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.

#New_York,_Chicago_and_St._Louis_Railroad

William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.

#William_Howard_Taft

The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attended.

#Million_Man_March

Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.

#Warsaw_Ghetto

Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while Alexei Kosygin becomes the head of government.

#Leonid_Brezhnev

William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation.

#William_T._G._Morton

Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.

#Jadwiga_of_Poland

Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.

#William_Whiston

Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.

Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.

Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.

China detonates its first nuclear weapon.

Cuban missile crisis begins: Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles(the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point)

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is published.

Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.

Queen's University is founded in the Province of Canada.

American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.

King Otto I defeats a Slavic revolt in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Abd ar-Rahman III becomes the 8th Emir of Córdoba