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

## Daiths
*1591 &ndash; Pape Gregory XIV (b. 1535)
*1774 &ndash; Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (b. 1750)
*1793 &ndash; Marie Antoinette, Queen o Fraunce (b. 1755)
*1946 &ndash; 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 &ndash; George Marshall, Unitit States Secretar o State (b. 1880)
*1981 &ndash; Moshe Dayan, Israeli militar an politeecian (b. 1915)
*2007 &ndash; Deborah Kerr, Scots actress an sangster (b. 1921)
*2017 &ndash; Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese blogger an jurnalist (b. 1964)
*2020 &ndash; 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)