October 16 historical events
955 — Battle on the Raxa
The Battle on the Raxa river (German: Schlacht an der Raxa) was fought on 16 October 955 over control of the Billung march (in present-day Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, northeast Germany) between the forces of Otto I of Germany allied with the Rani tribe on one side, and the Obotrite federation under Nako and his brother Stoigniew (Stoinef, Stoinneg, Stoinegin, Ztoignav) with their allied and tributary Slav neighbours on the other.
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1268 — Battle of Xiangyang
The Battle of Xiangyang (traditional Chinese: 襄陽之戰; simplified Chinese: 襄阳之战; pinyin: Xiāngyáng zhī zhàn) was a protracted series of battles between the Yuan dynasty and the Southern Song dynasty from 1267 to 1273. The battle was a significant victory for the Yuan dynasty and ended a 30-year defensive campaign waged by the Southern Song dynasty, allowing Yuan forces to advance into the Southern Song heartland.
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1326 — London uprising
The London uprising was a major event of the 1326 Invasion of England. Isabella of France, the wife of King Edward II, took the City of London, the principal city of the Kingdom of England, after her husband the King abandoned the Tower and fled to the west.
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1384 — Jadwiga is crowned ruler of Poland
On October 16, 1384, Jadwiga was crowned ruler of Poland in Kraków.
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1555 — Battle of Miyajima
The 1555 Battle of Miyajima (厳島合戦, Itsukushima Kassen) was the only battle to be fought on the sacred island of Miyajima; the entire island is considered to be a Shinto shrine, and no birth or death is allowed on the island. Extensive purification rituals took place after the battle, to cleanse the shrine and the island of the pollution of death.
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1597 — Battle of Jiksan
The Battle of Jiksan (직산 전투) was a military conflict fought between Ming and Japanese forces on 16 October 1597. It resulted in withdrawal by both sides. However the battle marked the furthest point the Japanese ever got to reaching Hanseong during the Second Invasion.
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1663 — Battle at Jurjeve Stijene
The Battle at Jurjeve Stijene (Croatian: Bitka kod Jurjevih Stijena) was fought on 16 October 1663, at a canyon near Otočac in the Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia between the forces of Petar Zrinski, at the time captain of Senj, Ogulin and Primorje, and the forces of the Ottoman Empire under Ali-Pasha Čengić of the Eyalet of Bosnia.
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1667 — Battle of Podhajce (1667)
The Battle of Podhajce (October 6–16, 1667) was fought in the town of Podhajce in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (nowadays Pidhaitsi, western Ukraine), and the area surrounding it as part of the Polish–Tatar War. The army of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth under John III Sobieski, totaling around 9,000 men, defeated Tatar and Cossack forces under Petro Doroshenko and Adil Giray, which totaled around 35,000 men.
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1689 — Battle of the Lake of Two Mountains
The Battle of the Lake of Two Mountains (French: Bataille du Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes) took place during the Beaver Wars between the colony of New France and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy that occurred on October 16, 1689. The battle occurred in response to the Lachine massacre of August 1689.
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1745 — Siege of Culloden House (1745)
The siege of Culloden House took place on the night of 15/16 October 1745 and was part of the Jacobite rising of 1745. 200 men of the Jacobite Clan Fraser of Lovat attempted to capture Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden who was the Lord President of the Court of Session, the most senior legal officer in Scotland.
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1757 — 1757 raid on Berlin
The 1757 raid on Berlin took place during the Third Silesian War (part of the Seven Years' War). Cavalrymen of the Holy Roman Empire attacked and briefly occupied Berlin, the capital of Prussia. According to an apocryphal story General Hadik picked up gloves in Berlin for Empress Maria Theresa, but after leaving he realized that he got only gloves for her left hand.
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1780 — British-led forces raid Royalton and nearby towns
On October 16, 1780, British-led forces attacked Royalton and nearby towns along the White River in what is now Vermont, United States, burning buildings and taking prisoners.
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1780 — Great Hurricane of 1780
The Great Hurricane of 1780 was the deadliest tropical cyclone in the Western Hemisphere. An estimated 22,000 people died throughout the Lesser Antilles when the storm passed through the islands from October 10 to October 16. Specifics on the hurricane's track and strength are unknown, as the official Atlantic hurricane database only goes back to 1851.
The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.
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1792 — Siege of Thionville (1792)
The siege of Thionville saw an unsuccessful attempt to conquer the French stronghold of Thionville by the Austro-royalists during the War of the First Coalition.
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1793 — Battle of Wattignies
The Battle of Wattignies (15–16 October 1793) saw a French army commanded by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan attack a Coalition army directed by Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After two days of combat Jourdan's troops compelled the Habsburg covering force led by François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt to withdraw. The War of the First Coalition victory allowed the French to raise the siege of Maubeuge.
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1793 — Siege of Maubeuge (1793)
The siege of Maubeuge (30 September – 16 October 1793) was a siege of the city of Maubeuge by an Austro-Dutch force of 60,000 men under Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld during the War of the First Coalition. Maubeuge was defended by a 24,000-strong garrison under the French Republican generals Desjardin and Mayer.
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1793 — Marie Antoinette is executed in Paris
On October 16, 1793, Marie Antoinette was executed by guillotine at the Place de la Révolution in Paris after being convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal.
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1805 — Battle of Ulm
The Battle of Ulm on 16–20 October 1805 was a series of skirmishes, at the end of the Ulm campaign, which allowed Napoleon I to trap an entire Austrian army under the command of Karl Freiherr Mack von Leiberich with minimal losses and to force its surrender near Ulm in the Electorate of Bavaria.
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1806 — Capitulation of Erfurt
In the Capitulation of Erfurt on 16 October 1806, a large body of troops from the Kingdom of Prussia under Lieutenant General the Prince of Orange surrendered to Marshal Joachim Murat of France, at the city of Erfurt (now in Germany). The Prussian soldiers were demoralized by their shattering defeat at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt on 14 October and unwilling to put up much resistance.
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1813 — Battle of Leipzig
The Battle of Leipzig, also known as the Battle of the Nations, was fought from 16 to 19 October 1813 at Leipzig, Saxony. The Coalition armies of Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia, led by Tsar Alexander I, Karl von Schwarzenberg, Gebhard von Blücher and Swedish Crown Prince Charles John, decisively defeated the Grande Armée of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
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1827 — Battle of Doro Passage
The Battle of Doro Passage was a naval engagement during the United States Navy's operation against Greek pirates in the Aegean Sea. On October 16, 1827 a British merchant ship was attacked by pirates in Doro Passage off the islands of Andros and Negroponte but was retaken by American sailors.
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1834 — Burning of Parliament
The Palace of Westminster, the medieval royal palace used as the home of the British parliament, was largely destroyed by fire on 16 October 1834. The blaze was caused by the burning of small wooden tally sticks which had been used as part of the accounting procedures of the Exchequer until 1826.
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1836 — Battle of Vegkop
The Battle of Vegkop, alternatively spelled as Vechtkop, took place on 16 October 1836 near the present day town of Heilbron, Free State, South Africa. After an impi of about 600 Matebele murdered 15 to 17 Afrikaner voortrekkers on the Vaal River, abducting three children, King Mzilikazi (c. 1790 – 9 September 1868; also known as Mzilikazi, Oemsiligasi or Moselekatse; Afrikaans: Silkaats) ordered another attack. The Voortrekkers, under the command of Andries Potgieter, repulsed them, but at the cost of abandoning their livestock.
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1841 — Queen’s College at Kingston receives its royal charter
On October 16, 1841, a royal charter established Queen’s College at Kingston, now Queen’s University in Canada.
Classes began on March 7, 1842.
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1843 — William Rowan Hamilton finds the rule for multiplying quaternions
While walking along Dublin’s Royal Canal, mathematician William Rowan Hamilton worked out the multiplication rule for quaternions. He later recalled carving it on Broom Bridge and described the mathematical breakthrough in a letter the next day.
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1844 — Larvik and Sandefjord electors choose a Storting representative
Electors for Larvik and Sandefjord met in Larvik to choose their representative. Two ballots ended in a tie, and Ulrik Frederik Cappelen was chosen by lot.
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1846 — William Morton demonstrates ether anesthesia during surgery
At Massachusetts General Hospital, dentist William T. G. Morton administered ether while surgeon John Collins Warren removed a tumor from a patient. The public demonstration helped popularize surgical anesthesia.
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1858 — 1858 Fiji expedition
In 1858, the United States Navy launched an operation on the island of Waya in Fiji following the death of two American traders there. The Pacific Squadron executed a punitive expedition against the native warriors of Seru Epenisa Cakobau and defeated them in a pitched battle at the village of Somatti.
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1859 — John Brown begins his raid on Harpers Ferry
On the night of October 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, then in Virginia and now in West Virginia, hoping to start an uprising against slavery.
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1861 — Battle of Bolivar Heights
The Battle of Bolivar Heights (October 16, 1861) was an early battle of the American Civil War. Bolivar Heights is a plateau which overlooks the towns of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia and Bolivar, West Virginia, then part of Virginia. On October 15, 1861, Union Major General Nathaniel P. Banks ordered Colonel John White Geary to cross the Potomac River from Maryland Heights, part of Elk Ridge (Maryland) and capture wheat stored by the Confederate States Army near Bolivar Heights. Geary crossed the river with 600 men but sent 500 of them back that night.
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1862 — Affair at Glenmore Farm
The Affair at Glenmore Farm was a small cavalry skirmish that took place October 16, 1862, in Loudoun County, Virginia, between Confederate forces under First Lieutenant Frank Myers and Union forces under General John Geary during the American Civil War. The skirmish resulted in a Union victory.
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1863 — Battle of Fort Brooke
The Battle of Fort Brooke was a minor engagement fought October 16–18, 1863, near Tampa, Florida, during the American Civil War.
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1869 — The College for Women opens in Hitchin
On October 16, 1869, five students began the first term at the College for Women at Benslow House in Hitchin, England. The college later became Girton College, Cambridge.
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1869 — Workers unearth the Cardiff Giant
Workers digging a well on a farm in Cardiff, New York, uncovered a stone figure that was exhibited as a petrified giant. It was later exposed as a hoax.
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1870 — Siege of Soissons
The Siege of Soissons (11 September 1870 – 16 October 1870) was a military engagement during the Franco-Prussian War, ending with the capitulation of Soissons.
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1872 — South Carolina gubernatorial election, 1872
The 1872 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on October 16, 1872 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Franklin J. Moses, Jr. won the election as a Radical Republican against the more moderate faction of the Republican Party and became the 75th governor of South Carolina.
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1875 — Brigham Young establishes Brigham Young Academy
On October 16, 1875, Brigham Young transferred property to trustees to establish Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah. The academy later became Brigham Young University.
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1880 — Maltese general election, 1880
General elections were held in Malta between 13 and 16 October 1880. The majority of elected Councillors were members of the Anti-Reform Party.
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1885 — 1885 New South Wales colonial election
The 1885 New South Wales colonial election was held between 16 October and 31 October 1885. This election was for all of the 122 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and it was conducted in 37 single-member constituencies, 24 2-member constituencies, seven 3-member constituencies and four 4-member constituencies, all with a first past the post system. Suffrage was limited to adult male British subjects, resident in New South Wales.
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1891 — U.S. sailors are attacked in Valparaíso
On October 16, 1891, sailors from USS Baltimore were attacked in Valparaíso, Chile. Two sailors were killed, triggering a diplomatic crisis between Chile and the United States.
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1904 — 1904 Svenska Mästerskapet final
The 1904 Svenska Mästerskapet final was played on 16 October 1904 between the seventh-time finalists Örgryte IS and the first-time finalists Djurgårdens IF. The match decided the winner of 1904 Svenska Mästerskapet, the football cup to determine the Swedish champions. Örgryte IS won their sixth title with a 2–1 victory at Idrottsparken in Stockholm.
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1910 — 1910 Svenska Mästerskapet final
The 1910 Svenska Mästerskapet final was played on 16 October 1910 between the second-time finalists IFK Göteborg and the four-time finalists Djurgårdens IF. The match decided the winner of 1910 Svenska Mästerskapet, the football cup to determine the Swedish champions. IFK Göteborg won their second title with a 3–0 victory.
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1913 — Birth of Qian Sanqiang
On 16 October 1913, Qian Sanqiang, a physicist, was born.
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1915 — Fall of Belgrade (1915)
The Fall of Belgrade (Serbian Cyrillic: Пад Београда, German: Der Fall von Belgrad) was a military engagement between the joint armies of Austria-Hungary and German Empire against Serbia in October 1915, during the Serbian Campaign of 1915 of World War I. After the fighting between 5 and 16 October 1915 Belgrade was finally occupied by Austro-Hungarian Third Army and German Eleventh Army, while successfully establishing two bridgeheads to serve as base for further operations of the Central Powers armies in the Balkans Theatre.
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1916 — Northern front of the Battle of Transylvania
On 27 August 1916, Romania entered World War I on the side of the Allies, three of its armies invading Transylvania. The 1st and 2nd Armies invaded the southern part, while the Romanian North Army invaded the northeastern part. Unlike the 1st and 2nd Armies – which had to contend with a German-led counter-offensive (First Battle of Petrozsény, Battle of Brassó) – the North Army faced primarily Austro-Hungarian forces, and as such its campaign hardly had any major battles.
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1916 — Battle of Transylvania ends
The Battle of Transylvania ran from 27 August to 16 October 1916 in Transylvania, then part of Austria-Hungary.
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1916 — Margaret Sanger opens a birth-control clinic in Brooklyn
On October 16, 1916, Margaret Sanger opened a birth-control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York.
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1923 — Walt and Roy Disney establish Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio
On October 16, 1923, Walt and Roy Disney established Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company that later became The Walt Disney Company.
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1933 — Norwegian parliamentary election, 1933
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 16 October 1933. The result was a victory for the Labour Party, which won 69 of the 150 seats in the Storting.
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1936 — Siege of Oviedo
The siege of Oviedo was a siege in the Spanish Civil War that lasted from 19 July until 16 October 1936. The town garrison, under the command of Colonel Antonio Aranda Mata, took sides for the Nationalist uprising and held out until relieved by a Nationalist force from Galicia.
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1938 — 1938 Norwegian Football Cup final
The 1938 Norwegian Football Cup final was the 37th final of the Norwegian Football Cup. It took place on 16 October 1938 at Briskeby gressbane in Hamar. The match was contested between Fredrikstad and Mjøndalen. The match was Fredrikstad's fourth and Mjøndalen's seventh appearance overall and Mjøndalen's third consecutive final appearance. Fredrikstad won the match 3–2, after the game had ended at a 2–2 draw after ordinary time.
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1939 — Battle of the River Forth
The Battle of the River Forth was an air battle on 16 October 1939 between Supermarine Spitfires from No. 602 and No. 603 Squadrons of the Royal Air Force and Junkers Ju 88 bombers of 1. Gruppe Kampfgeschwader 30. It resulted when twelve Ju 88s attacked Rosyth naval base at the Firth of Forth. The raid was the first German air raid on Britain during World War II.
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1941 — Siege of Odessa
The siege of Odessa, known to the Soviets as the defence of Odessa, lasted from 8 August until 16 October 1941, during the early phase of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. Odessa was a port on the Black Sea in the Ukrainian SSR. On 22 June 1941, the Axis powers invaded the Soviet Union.
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1942 — Convoy SC 104
Convoy SC 104 was the 104th of the numbered series of World War II slow convoys of merchant ships from Sydney, Cape Breton Island to Liverpool. During October 1942, a U-boat wolf pack sank eight ships from the convoy. The convoy escorts sank two of the attacking submarines.
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1943 — Raid on the Roman Ghetto
The raid on the Roman Ghetto took place on 16 October 1943. A total of 1,259 people, mainly members of the Jewish community—numbering 363 men, 689 women, and 207 children—were detained by the Gestapo. Of these detainees, 1,023 were identified as Jews and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Of these deportees, only fifteen men and one woman survived.
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1944 — Operation Panzerfaust
Operation Panzerfaust (German: Unternehmen Panzerfaust, lit. 'Operation Armored Fist') was a military operation undertaken in October 1944 by the German Wehrmacht to ensure the Kingdom of Hungary would remain a German ally in World War II. When German leader Adolf Hitler received word that Hungary's Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy, was secretly negotiating his country's surrender to the advancing Red Army, he sent commando leader Otto Skorzeny of the Waffen-SS and former special forces commander Adrian von Fölkersam to Hungary.
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1944 — Operation Rimau
Operation Rimau was an attack on Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour, carried out by an Allied commando unit Z Special Unit, during World War II using Australian built Hoehn military MKIII folboats. It was a follow-up to the successful Operation Jaywick which had taken place in September 1943, and was again led by Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Lyon of the Gordon Highlanders, an infantry regiment of the British Army.
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1945 — Establishment of Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto, fiat panis, translates to "let there be bread". It was founded on 16 October 1945 in Quebec City, Canada. The FAO comprises 194 members, including 193 countries and one member organization, the European Union (EU).
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1947 — The Philippines takes over administration of the Turtle and Mangsee islands
Administration of the Turtle and Mangsee islands passed from the United Kingdom to the Philippines under an international agreement. The islands lie between Borneo and the Sulu archipelago.
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1948 — 1948 Rural West by-election
The 1948 Rural West by-election for the Legislative Council of Singapore was held on 16 October 1948, after the death of incumbent Srish Chandra Goho on 24 July 1948. Independent candidate Balwant Singh Bajaj was elected with 56% of the vote, taking his seat on 19 October 1948.
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1951 — Pakistani prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan is assassinated
On October 16, 1951, Pakistan’s prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan was shot while addressing a public gathering in Rawalpindi. He died of his injuries.
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1951 — East China Normal University is founded
East China Normal University was founded in Shanghai on 16 October 1951, drawing principally on Daxia University, Guanghua University and other institutions. This records its establishment and opening ceremony rather than the earlier administrative approval.
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1964 — China conducts its first nuclear test
Project 596 (Miss Qiu, Chinese: 邱小姐; pinyin: Qiū Xiǎojiě, as the callsign; Chic-1 by the US intelligence agencies) was the first nuclear test of the nuclear weapons program of China, detonated on 16 October 1964, at the Lop Nur test site in Xinjiang. It was an implosion fission device containing about 15 kg weapons-grade uranium (U-235), produced at the Lanzhou enrichment plant.
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1968 — 1968 Olympics Black Power salute
During their medal ceremony in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City on October 16, 1968, two African-American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, each raised a black-gloved fist during the playing of the US national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". While on the podium, Smith and Carlos, who had won gold and bronze medals respectively in the 200-meter running event of the 1968 Summer Olympics, turned to face the US flag and then kept their hands raised until the anthem had finished.
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1973 — 1973 Atlanta mayoral election
The 1973 Atlanta mayoral election was held on October 16, 1973, in Atlanta, Georgia. Vice Mayor Maynard Jackson was elected as the city's first African-American mayor, defeating incumbent Mayor Sam Massell. The election took place concurrently with the 1973 Atlanta City Council election. In the primary election that preceded the general election, Jackson finished first with 46.4 percent of the vote.
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1973 — 1973 raid on Egyptian missile bases
The 16 October 1973 raid on Egyptian missile bases was an Israeli raid that took place during the Yom Kippur War. Conducted by the Israel Defense Forces' 421st brigade, its goal was the creation of a corridor in the dense Egyptian air defense array, thus allowing Israeli Air Force activity in the vicinity of the Suez Canal.
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1975 — The last known naturally acquired case of severe smallpox begins
Rahima Banu, a child on Bangladesh’s Bhola Island, developed the rash of variola major, the more severe form of smallpox. Her case was the last known naturally acquired infection with that form of the virus.
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1981 — 1981 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final
The 1981 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final was the eighth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1981 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship, an inter-county ladies' Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. Offaly were hot favourites but trailed 3–0 to 0–6 at half-time. Cavan ran out of steam in the second half and Offaly won by two.
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1982 — 1982 Kepayang by-election
The 1982 Kepayang by-election is a by-election for the Perak State Legislative Assembly seat of Kepayang that were held on 16 October 1982. It was called following the resignation of the incumbent, Lim Cho Hock on 1 September 1982.
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1986 — 1986 United Nations Security Council election
The 1986 United Nations Security Council election was held on 16 October 1986 during the Forty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected Argentina, Italy, Japan, West Germany, and Zambia, as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1987.
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1988 — King of the Ring (1988)
The 1988 King of the Ring was the fourth annual King of the Ring professional wrestling tournament produced by the World Wrestling Federation. The tournament was held on October 16, 1988 at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island as a special non-televised house show. The 1988 tournament was won by Ted DiBiase. when he defeated Randy Savage in the final In addition to the tournament, there was only one other match during the night.
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1988 — BEPC achieves its first electron–positron collisions
The Beijing Electron–Positron Collider achieved electron–positron collisions on 16 October 1988. The facility became an important platform for particle-physics research in China. This was the original BEPC, before the later BEPCII upgrade.
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1989 — Alberta Senate nominee election, 1989
The 1st Alberta Senate nominee election was held on October 16, 1989 in Alberta, Canada. It was held in conjunction with Alberta municipal elections under the Local Authorities Election Act., and resulted in the first Canadian Senator appointed following a popular election. The vote was held along municipal electoral boundaries, but conducted by Elections Alberta. Candidates were registered with provincial parties.
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1991 — Luby's shooting
The Luby's massacre was a mass shooting that took place on October 16, 1991, at a restaurant in Killeen, Texas, United States. The perpetrator, George Hennard, crashed his pickup truck through the front of a Luby's Cafeteria, and immediately shot and killed 23 people, and wounded 27 others before shooting and killing himself.
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1991 — 1991 United Nations Security Council election
The 1991 United Nations Security Council election was held on 16 October 1991 during the Forty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected Cape Verde (for the first time), Hungary, Japan, Morocco, and Venezuela, as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1992.
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1994 — German federal election, 1994
German federal elections took place on 16 October 1994, to elect members to the 13th Bundestag (parliament) of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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1994 — 1994 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election
The 1994 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election was held on 16 October 1994 to elect the members of the 2nd Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The incumbent government was a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) led by Minister-President Berndt Seite. While the CDU remained the largest party in the Landtag, the FDP suffered a 1.7-point swing and lost all its seats.
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1994 — 1994 Thuringian state election
The 1994 Thuringian state election was held on 16 October 1994 to elect the members of the 2nd Landtag of Thuringia. The incumbent coalition government of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) led by Minister-President Bernhard Vogel was defeated. The CDU suffered only minor losses, but the FDP lost its representation the Landtag.
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1994 — 1994 NSL Cup final
The 1994 NSL Cup final was the final match of the 1994–95 NSL Cup, the 19th season of the National Soccer League Cup. It was played at Olympic Park in Melbourne on 16 October 1994 between Melbourne Knights and Heidelberg United, making it the first time two Melbourne teams was contested in a NSL Cup final. Melbourne Knights won the match 6–0 for their first NSL Cup title.
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1994 — 1994 Saarland state election
The 1994 Saarland state election was held on 16 October 1994 to elect the members of the Landtag of Saarland. The incumbent Social Democratic Party (SPD) government led by Minister-President Oskar Lafontaine was returned with a reduced majority and continued in office.
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1995 — Million Man March
The Million Man March was a large gathering of African American men in Washington, D.C., on Monday, October 16, 1995. Called by Louis Farrakhan, it was held on and around the National Mall. The National African American Leadership Summit, a leading group of civil rights activists and the Nation of Islam working with scores of civil rights organizations, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP, involving its local chapters, not headquarters) formed the Million Man March Organizing Committee.
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1995 — The Skye Bridge opens in Scotland
On October 16, 1995, the Skye Bridge opened, connecting the Isle of Skye with the Scottish mainland.
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1996 — Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores disaster
The Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores disaster was a crowd disaster that occurred on 16 October 1996 in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
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1996 — Bill Clinton and Bob Dole hold their second presidential debate
On October 16, 1996, Bill Clinton and Bob Dole held their second presidential debate at the University of San Diego in California.
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1996 — Jersey holds its 1996 senatorial election
Jersey elected senators in an island-wide vote. Elections for deputies were held separately the following month.
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1998 — UFC Brazil
UFC Brazil: Ultimate Brazil (also known as UFC 17.5) was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship in São Paulo, Brazil on October 16, 1998. The event was seen on pay-per-view in the United States and Brazil, and was later released on home video.
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1998 — 1998 Maldivian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in the Maldives on 16 October 1998. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom was the sole candidate nominated by Parliament. His candidacy was approved by 90.9% of voters, with a turnout of 76%.
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1999 — Battle of Aidabasalala
The Battle of Aidabasalala (16 October 1999) was a small but hard fought action during the 1999 East Timorese crisis between pro-Indonesian militia, and a small six-man Australian covert reconnaissance patrol from the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) operating as part of the United Nations-mandated International Force for East Timor (INTERFET). The battle took place near Aidabasalala, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the West Timor border, and saw the Australians repeatedly attacked in a series of fire-fights by a group of more than 20 militia.
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1999 — Botswana general election, 1999
General elections were held in Botswana on 16 October 1999, alongside local elections. The result was an eighth straight victory for the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which increased its majority to 33 of the 40 elected seats in the National Assembly.
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1999 — 1999 Frankston East state supplementary election
The 1999 Frankston East state supplementary election was held on 16 October 1999 to elect the next member for the electoral district of Frankston East in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, following the death of sitting MP Peter McLellan on the day of the 1999 Victorian state election.
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1999 — The magnitude 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake strikes Southern California
The 1999 Hector Mine earthquake occurred in Southern California, United States, on October 16 at 02:46:50 PDT. Its moment magnitude was 7.1 and the earthquake was preceded by 12 foreshocks, the largest of which had a magnitude of 3.8. The event is thought to have been triggered by the 1992 Landers earthquake which occurred seven years earlier. It also deformed nearby faults vertically and horizontally.
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2001 — Massachusetts's 9th congressional district special election, 2001
Massachusetts's 9th congressional district special election of 2001 was held on October 16, 2001 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Joe Moakley. Democratic State Senator Stephen Lynch won the election; defeating six candidates in the Democratic primary and three in the general election.
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2001 — 2001 Florida's 1st congressional district special election
The 2001 special election for Florida's 1st congressional district took place on October 16, 2001, to fill the vacancy caused by Representative Joe Scarborough's resignation. Florida's 1st congressional district was a staunchly conservative district stretching from Panama City Beach to Pensacola in the Florida Panhandle. State Representative Jeff Miller, the Republican nominee, easily defeated Steve Briese, a financial writer and the Democratic nominee.
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2002 — Iraqi presidential referendum, 2002
Presidential elections were held in the Republic of Iraq on October 16, 2002, the second under the rule of Saddam Hussein (the first having taken place in 1995). According to official statistics, the turnout was 100%, with all 11,445,638 Iraqis registered to vote having voted "yes" in a referendum whether to support another seven year-term for President Saddam Hussein, which would legally have ended in 2009.
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2002 — Jamaican general election, 2002
General elections were held in Jamaica on 16 October 2002. The result was a victory for the People's National Party, which won 34 of the 60 seats, whilst voter turnout was 59.1%. PNP leader P. J. Patterson retained his position as Prime Minister, becoming the first political leader to win three successive elections. Patterson stepped down on 26 February 2006, and was replaced by Portia Simpson-Miller, Jamaica's first female Prime Minister.
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2002 — Operation Clean Heart
Operation Clean Heart was an anti-crime operation jointly carried out by Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh Navy, Bangladesh Rifles, Bangladesh Police and Bangladesh Ansar members in Bangladesh. The operation was carried by the government of Bangladesh headed by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
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2002 — Bibliotheca Alexandrina is inaugurated
On October 16, 2002, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina was inaugurated in Alexandria, Egypt.
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2002 — Jersey holds its 2002 senatorial election
Voters across Jersey elected senators to the States Assembly. The deputy elections took place separately in November.
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2004 — Verano de Escándalo (2004)
The 2004 Verano de Escándalo (Spanish for "Summer of Scandal") was the eight annual Verano de Escándalo professional wrestling show promoted by Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA). The show took place on October 16, 2004, in Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico. The main event featured a steel cage Luchas de Apuestas match where the last man in the cage would have to remove his mask or have his hair shaved off. The participants were Heavy Metal, El Intocable, and Zorro facing off against Los Vipers (Histeria, Mosco de la Merced, and Psicosis II).
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2004 — 2004 Australian Capital Territory election
Elections to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly were held on Saturday, 16 October 2004. The incumbent Labor Party, led by Jon Stanhope, was challenged by the Liberal Party, led by Brendan Smyth. Candidates were elected to fill three multi-member electorates using a single transferable vote method, known as the Hare-Clark system. The result was a clear majority of nine seats in the 17-member unicameral Assembly for Labor.
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2004 — 2004 Israeli operation in the northern Gaza Strip
The 2004 Israeli operation in the northern Gaza Strip took place when the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation "Days of Penitence" (Hebrew: מבצע ימי תשובה), otherwise known as Operation "Days of Repentance" in the northern Gaza Strip. The operation lasted between 29 September and 16 October 2004. About 130 Palestinians, and 1 Israeli were killed.
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2006 — Lawrence Livermore announces evidence for element 118
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced results from a collaboration with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna. Their experiments detected evidence for atoms of element 118, later named oganesson.
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2007 — Massachusetts's 5th congressional district special election, 2007
Massachusetts held a special election to fill a vacancy in Massachusetts's 5th congressional district on October 16, 2007. Democrat Niki Tsongas won election to Congress, defeating Republican Jim Ogonowski in an election that was closer than expected. Marty Meehan had been the district's Representative to Congress since 1993. He announced his resignation in May 2007 (effective July 1), allowing him to become the next Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Meehan had last won re-election in 2006, when he ran unopposed. The district was considered to be strongly Democratic, as it voted 58% for the Democratic candidate (John Kerry) in the most recent presidential election.
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2007 — 2007 United Nations Security Council election
The 2007 United Nations Security Council election was held on 16 October 2007 during the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at UN Headquarters in New York City. The elections were for five non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 2008.
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2009 — Botswana general election, 2009
General elections were held in Botswana on 16 October 2009, alongside local elections, with early voting in 26 polling stations abroad taking place 3 October. The result was a tenth successive victory for the Botswana Democratic Party, which won 45 of the 57 elected seats in the National Assembly.
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2009 — 14th Busan International Film Festival
The 14th Busan International Film Festival was held from October 8 to October 16, 2009, in Busan, South Korea. A total of 355 films from over 70 countries were screened, beating the record set in the last festival. With a total attendance of 173,516, it had 98 world premieres and 46 international premieres.
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2009 — China's 11th National Games open in Jinan
The opening ceremony of the 11th National Games took place at Jinan Olympic Sports Center Stadium. The competition continued across Shandong until 28 October.
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2010 — People's Justice Party leadership election, 2010
A leadership election was held by the People's Justice Party (PKR) from 16 October 2010 until 25 November 2010. It was won by incumbent President of PKR, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
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2010 — UFC 120
UFC 120: Bisping vs. Akiyama was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on October 16, 2010, at the O2 Arena in London, United Kingdom. The card featured six televised MMA bouts, as well as four un-aired preliminary bouts. The main event featured The Ultimate Fighter 3 winner Michael Bisping and the Japanese judoka Yoshihiro Akiyama.
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2010 — 2010 Prague municipal election
The 2010 Prague municipal election was held as part of 2010 Czech municipal elections. It was held on 15 and 16 October 2010. Prague was divided into 7 electoral districts with 9 mandates allocated for each district. It created a "natural threshold." Election was won by TOP 09 ahead of Civic Democratic Party. Czech Social Democratic Party came third.
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2010 — 2010 Liga Nacional de Ascenso Apertura Final
The 2010 Liga Nacional de Ascenso Apertura Final was the final match of the 2010 Liga Nacional de Ascenso Apertura, the 12th season of the second-highest league competition in Panamanian football.
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2010 — 2010 Brno municipal election
Municipal election in Brno was held as part of Czech municipal elections in 2010. It was a victory for Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD). ČSSD formed grand coalition with Civic Democratic Party.
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2010 — 2010 Czech municipal elections
Municipal elections were held in the Czech Republic on 15 and 16 October. The Civic Democratic Party won the most seats, although it lost in Prague. The elections were a success for the Czech Social Democratic Party and TOP 09, and were considered a revival for the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party.
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2011 — Bound for Glory (2011)
Bound for Glory (2011) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), that took place on October 16, 2011 at the Liacouras Center on the campus of Temple University in Philadelphia. It was the seventh annual event under the Bound for Glory chronology, and the premiere event of 2011 for TNA. On top of that, it was the first Bound for Glory in the city of Philadelphia and the second TNA PPV to be held in Philadelphia after TNA Lockdown in 2009. This was also the first TNA PPV that was simulcast live in over 100 theaters across the country.
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2011 — Operation Linda Nchi
Operation Linda Nchi ("Protect the country"; Swahili: Linda Nchi) is the codename for a co-ordinated military operation between the Kenyan military and the Somali military that began on 16 October 2011, when troops from Kenya crossed the border into the conflict zones of southern Somalia. The soldiers were in pursuit of Al-Shabaab militants that are alleged to have kidnapped several foreign tourists and aid workers inside Kenya. According to the Ethiopian Foreign Minister, the operation represents one of the final stages in the Islamist insurgency of the Somali Civil War.
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2011 — The Dr. Wagner 50th Anniversary Show takes place in Naucalpan
On October 16, 2011, IWRG and Promocion Wagner staged the Dr. Wagner 50th Anniversary Show, a professional wrestling event at Arena Naucalpan in Mexico.
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2011 — Battle of Lower Juba ends
The Battle of Lower Juba in Somalia ran from 1 April to 16 October 2011. The retained account describes fighting at Dhobley on 1 April, but gives no separate account of events on the final date.
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2011 — 2011 French Socialist Party presidential primary
The 2011 French Socialist Party presidential primary was the first open primary (primaires citoyennes) of the French Socialist Party and Radical Party of the Left for selecting their candidate for the 2012 presidential election. The filing deadline for primary nomination papers was fixed at 13 July 2011 and six candidates competed in the first round of the vote.
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2012 — Barack Obama and Mitt Romney hold their second presidential debate
On October 16, 2012, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney held their second presidential debate at Hofstra University in New York.
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2013 — United States Senate special election in New Jersey, 2013
The 2013 United States Senate special election in New Jersey was held on October 16, 2013 to fill the New Jersey United States Senate Class 2 seat for the remainder of the term ending January 3, 2015. The vacancy resulted from the death of five-term Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg on June 3, 2013. In the interim, the seat was held by Republican Senator Jeffrey Chiesa, who was appointed on June 6, 2013 by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to serve until the elected winner was sworn in. At the time of his appointment, Chiesa, then New Jersey's Attorney General, announced that he would not be a candidate in the special election.
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2013 — Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes near Pakse
On 16 October 2013, Lao Airlines Flight 301, travelling from Vientiane to Pakse, crashed into the Mekong River near Pakse in Laos. All 49 people aboard, 44 passengers and five crew members, were killed.
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2013 — 2013 Palacký University Rector election
Rector election was held at Palacký University on 16 October 2013. Historian Jaroslav Miller defeated the incumbent Rector Miroslav Mašláň.
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2013 — 2013 Copa Argentina Final
The 2013 Copa Argentina Final was the 223rd and final match of the 2012–13 Copa Argentina. It was played on October 16, 2013 at the Estadio del Bicentenario de Catamarca between San Lorenzo and Arsenal. Arsenal won the match 3–0. As champion, Arsenal qualified for the 2013 Supercopa Argentina and the 2014 Copa Libertadores.
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2013 — 18th Vietnam Film Festival
The 18th Vietnam Film Festival was held from October 14 to October 16, 2013 in Hạ Long City, Quảng Ninh Province, Vietnam, with the slogan "Vietnamese Cinema - Ethnicity, Humanity, Creativity, Integration" (Vietnamese: "Điện ảnh Việt Nam - Dân tộc, Nhân văn, Sáng tạo, Hội nhập").
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2013 — Shanghai Metro Line 11 extends to Huaqiao
On 16 October 2013, Shanghai Metro Line 11 opened between Anting and Huaqiao, crossing the Shanghai–Jiangsu boundary.
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2014 — N'Tillit clashes
On October 16, 2014, clashes broke out between the pro-government GATIA militia and the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad in N'Tillit, Mali.
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2014 — Manchester City beats Arsenal to win the Women’s Super League Cup
Isobel Christiansen scored as Manchester City defeated Arsenal 1–0 at Adams Park, earning the club’s first major women’s trophy.
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2016 — 2016 Azorean regional election
The 2016 Azorean regional election (Portuguese: Eleições regionais dos Açores de 2016) was on October 16 of the same year. In this election, the incumbent president of the regional government, led by the Socialist Vasco Cordeiro, was seeking a second term. In this election, the PS maintained their absolute majority but lost one seat and lost 2.6 percent of the vote compared to 2012.
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2016 — 2016 Dabiq offensive
The 2016 Dabiq offensive was a military offensive and part of the third phase of Operation Euphrates Shield launched by the Turkish Armed Forces and factions from the Free Syrian Army (FSA, a Syrian rebel group) and allied groups, with the goal of capturing the town of Dabiq, north of Aleppo from the Islamic State (IS). It began in September and resulted in the capture of Dabiq by Turkish/FSA-allied forces on 16 October.
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2016 — Taichung opens its elevated railway station
Trains began serving Taichung’s new elevated station after overnight work switched the tracks onto a viaduct. The older ground-level station closed.
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2017 — 2017 Alberta municipal elections
Municipal elections were held in Alberta, Canada on Monday, October 16, 2017. Mayors (reeves), councillors (aldermen), and trustees were up for election in all cities (except Lloydminster), all towns, all villages, all specialized municipalities, all municipal districts, three of the eight improvement districts, and the advisory councils of the special areas.
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2017 — 2017 Calgary municipal election
The 2017 Calgary municipal election was held on October 16, 2017, to elect a mayor, councillors to the city council, trustees to the Calgary Board of Education, and trustees to the Calgary Catholic School District. From 1968 to 2013, provincial legislation required every municipality to hold elections every three years.
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2017 — 2017 Edmonton municipal election
The 2017 Edmonton municipal election was held Monday, October 16, 2017, to elect a mayor and 12 councillors to the city council, the nine trustees to Edmonton Public Schools, and the seven trustees to the Edmonton Catholic Schools. One incumbent public school trustee had no challenger so was elected by acclamation; for the other eight balloting was conducted. They were all elected to four year terms in single-member wards.
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2017 — Ex-Hurricane Ophelia makes landfall in Ireland
Ophelia came ashore in southwestern Ireland after transitioning into an extratropical storm. Strong winds damaged infrastructure and cut power across parts of the country.
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2018 — Brazil defeats Argentina in a friendly in Jeddah
On October 16, 2018, Brazil defeated Argentina 1–0 in a football friendly at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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2019 — 2019 Uttarakhand local elections
The 2019 Uttarakhand Panchayat general elections were held in the Indian state of Uttarakhand on in three phases on 5, 11, and 16 October 2019. Previously, in the same year on 14 June 2019, the Uttarakhand State Election Commission also announced the poll dates for the municipal councils of Srinagar and Bajpur on 8 July 2019 and the results were declared on 10 July 2019.
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2020 — Lluvia and La Jarochita win Mexico’s women’s tag team championship
Lluvia and La Jarochita defeated Amapola and La Metálica in the tournament final at Arena México to claim the vacant Mexican National Women’s Tag Team Championship.
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2021 — Bellator 268
Bellator 268: Nemkov vs. Anglickas (also known as Bellator Phoenix) was a mixed martial arts event produced by Bellator MMA that took place on October 16, 2021, at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
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2021 — UFC Fight Night: Ladd vs. Dumont
UFC Fight Night: Ladd vs. Dumont (also known as UFC Fight Night 195, UFC Vegas 40 and UFC on ESPN+ 53) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on October 16, 2021, at the UFC Apex facility in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.
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2021 — 2021 Perth City Council election
The 2021 Perth City Council election was held on 16 October 2021 to elect four councillors to the City of Perth. The election was held as part of the statewide local elections in Western Australia. No election for lord mayor was held, as the term of incumbent Basil Zempilas did not expire until 2023. Four other councillors were also not up for election.
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2021 — 2021 Hungarian opposition primary
In the run-up to the 2022 Hungarian general election, the parliamentary opposition to the governing Fidesz–KDNP alliance, contesting the election collectively as United for Hungary, held a two-round primary election to select the coalition's prime-ministerial candidate. The first round was held from 18-28 September 2021; the second from 10-16 October 2021. United for Hungary also used the primary to select unity candidates to contest single-member districts.
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2022 — 2022 Henderson Tennis Open
The 2022 Henderson Tennis Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the thirteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2022 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Las Vegas, United States between 10 and 16 October 2022.
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2022 — 2022 Pakistani by-elections
By-elections were held on 8 National Assembly and 3 Punjab Assembly constituencies in Pakistan on 16 October 2022 and 1 National Assembly seat on 30 October 2022. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf got a landslide victory by winning 7 out of 9 National Assembly and 2 out of 3 Punjab Assembly seats whereas the Pakistan Democratic Movement, an alliance of 14 parties, was only able to win 2 National Assembly seats and 1 Punjab Assembly seat.
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2022 — 2022 Open Feu Aziz Zouhir
The 2022 Open Feu Aziz Zouhir was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2022 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Monastir, Tunisia between 10 and 16 October 2022.
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2022 — 2022 Empire Women's Indoor 2
The 2022 Empire Women's Indoor 2 was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the tenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2022 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Trnava, Slovakia between 10 and 16 October 2022.
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2022 — 2022 BFI London Film Festival
The 66th BFI London Film Festival was a film festival that took place from 5–16 October 2022. British-American producer Tanya Seghatchian served as jury president. Marie Kreutzer's Corsage won the Best Film Award. The festival opened with Matilda the Musical directed by Matthew Warchus and closed with Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery directed by Rian Johnson.
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2022 — 2022 New York Film Festival
The 60th New York Film Festival took place from September 30 to October 16, 2022, in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center. Noah Baumbach's absurdist comedy-drama White Noise was selected as the "Opening Night Film" for this edition. Laura Poitras' documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed was chosen as NYFF's "Centerpiece Film", James Gray's drama film Armageddon Time was selected as NYFF's 60th anniversary celebration film.
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2022 — 2022 Jakarta Film Week
The 2022 Jakarta Film Week, the second edition of the film festival Jakarta Film Week, was held on 13 to 16 October 2022. The festival opened with Fajar Nugros' The Ballads of Roy, and closed with Sorayos Prapapan's film Arnold Is a Model Student. It was held in-person around Central Jakarta at the CGV Grand Indonesia, Ashley Hotel, also a new venue: Kineforum Ismail Marzuki Park, as well as virtual through streaming service Vidio.
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2024 — Battle of Kurakhove
The Battle of Kurakhove was a battle for control of the city of Kurakhove and the surrounding area between the Russian Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The battle for the city began on 16 October 2024, when Russian forces' offensive operation in the direction of Kurakhove succeeded in capturing the nearby settlement of Ostrivske on 15 October, thus beginning the battle as Russian forces entered the administrative limits of the city from the north-eastern direction on the eastern bank of the Kurakhove reservoir.
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2024 — 19th Rome Film Festival
The 19th Rome Film Festival opened on 16 October in the Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome with the Italian biographical drama film The Great Ambition by Andrea Segre. Earlier the pre-opening film of the festival, Megalopolis, an American epic science fiction drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola, was screened on 14 October 2024, at the Cinecittà film studios. The event was streamed live to the Auditorium Parco della Musica's Sala Petrassi.
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