16 October

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

Events

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.

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

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)