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.

 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.

 Births 
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)

Category:Days o the year