According to Gregory calendar, on October 16, the day number in a year is 290 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 291. October 16 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Important Historical Events of 16 October in the World ⚡

Event YearIncident/Event
1590Italian composer Carlo Gesuldo caught his wife to have an extramarital affair with Andrea's Duke Fabricio Karfa and killed him on the spot.
1710British troops captured Port Royal.
1757The Austrian army captured Berlin, the capital of Germany.
1757Austrian troops occupied Berlin.
1793Mary Antonate, Rani Consort of Louis the sixteenth, disintegrated at the height of the revolution in Place de la revolution in Paris.
1793Despite the first coalition's war-French armies being a leader for victory in the watming battle, the gene-baptist Jersedon was later forcibly discharged from the army due to the intervention of Lezare Karnot.
1793After the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoniette was sentenced to death after a speedy trial.
1834The Palace of Westminster was destroyed by fire.
1834Most of the palace of Westminster in London was destroyed in the east.
1841The Church of Scotland established the Queen's College in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
18481 American Homoeopathic Medical College opened in Pennsylvania.
1849Avery College was founded in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
1859Expecting to initiate an armed slave rebellion, American eliminator John Brown led a raid on the Harpers Ferry Armary at Harpers Ferry Armary, Westwearginia.
1861The sale of federal postage stamps began.
1869One of the 31 component colleges of the diversity of the first residential college of Girton College, Cambridge and England was established.
1872University College Wales (later to become the University of Aberystwyth) began its first academic session.
1905Bengal was first partitioned by Lord Curzon.
1917The poet Lucknowi was born. His full name was Muhammad Hasan Pasha.
1923Roy and Walt Disney founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Stadioin Hollywood which eventually became one of the world's largest media Enderator Corporation.
1923Disney Brothers established Cartoon Studios.
1934Surrounded by Kuomitang soldiers, Zhou Anlai, Bo Gu and Ottobron led 130,000 Red Army troops and citizens, who were at 'Long March ' from Jiangshi.
1935Massachusetts disability horse racing was inaugurated.
1939Germany launched the first attack on British territory during World War II.
1940The Second World War-Nazi Governor-General Hans Frank founded the Jewish Jewish Jewish Vevre Getho, the largest Jewish Jewish occupied at Poland.
1945The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization was forbidden to lead international efforts to fragrate in Cubek City, Canada.
1951The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liqayat Ali Khan, was assassinated.
1951Pakistan's first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was murdered in Rawalpindi.
1951Pakistan's first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was shot dead in Rawalpidi.
1959The Boston Patriots AFL American Football Club was established.
1964China explodes its first nuclear explosion.
1968To oppose racism in the United States, African Americanthlets Tommy Smith and John Carlos saluted Black Power at a medal ceremony at the Mexico City Summer Olympics.
1968Bharatvanshi Hargovind Khurana was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for medicine and physiology.
1975Five journalists of the Australian television network located in Inthe, Balibo were killed by a soldier of Indonesian Special Forces for the attack of Eastern Telor.
1978Karol, Poland's Cardinal Karol Joseph Wijtila became a non-Italian Pope for the first time from the Slavic country before the 16th century.
1982The Soviet Union conducted underground nuclear tests.
1984Bill began on ITV, eventually the longest running police procedural in British television history.
1995Louis Farakhan of The Nation of Islam called Million American ruler in Washington, DC, who was trying to unite in self-help and self-protection against the economic and social diseases of the African American Duniya.
1996The 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification matchbetten Guatemala and Costa Rica were killed and more than 140 were injured in Gwatemala City's Estino Mateo Flores to see and injured more than 140.
1996The stampede caused 84 people to die and more than 180 injured as more people reached the stadium during a football match in Guatemala's capital, Guatemala City.
2005In the rebellion of South Thailand, a Buddhist temple caught fire, killing Buddhist monks and five other people.
2006Russian and American scientists revealed the discovery of a new chemical element with atomic number 118, temporarily called unique.
2008The United States Consumer Price Index is similar to falling costs for gasoline during September, and new cars helped balance growing food and medical expenses.
2009The Newz Museum in Berlin has officially opened up after a good 70 years and rebuilt after rebuilding.
2010On World Food Day, the United Nations called for united against the lack of food, as one billion people are still hungry.
2012Citragroup CEO Vikram Pandit resigns from his post, and Michael Corbett immediately quit him.
2012A new planet 'Alpha Century Bibi' was detected outside the solar system.
2013A portion of the Chelyabinsk meteor has been recovered around 1,255LB by divers in Russia, one of the largest meteorite pieces found so far.
2013The crash of a Lao Airlines plane killed 49 people shortly before landing at Pakse International Airport in the South East Asian country of Laos.
2014US President Barack Obama provides approval for military reserves to be sent to West Africa if necessary, if necessary.
456Magister Militum Ricimer defeated Emperor Avitus in Piyasenza and became the master of the Western Roman Empire.

Important Historical Events of 16 October in India ⚡

Event YearIncident/Event
1948India's famous actress and Bharatanatyam dancer Hema Malini was born.
2007India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh informed the United States President George W. Bush that India is suspicious about signing an agreement with the United States about civilian nuclear cooperation.
2011The British Indian Fauja Singh is certified by the Guinness World Record, the oldest person to finish a full marathon at the age of 100.

Important Days of 16 October National & International Days 🏁

Day/ObservanceLevel
World Food DayInternational Day
World Allergy Awareness DayInternational Day
World Food DayInternational Day

Famous People's Birthdays on 16 October 😀

Birth YearName/Category/Country
1944Lachhu Maharaj / Instrumentalist / India
1946Naveen Patnaik / Politician / India
1948Hema Malini / Politician / India
1949Crazy Mohan / Actor / India
1982Prithviraj Sukumaran / Actor / India

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