Page 5: Historical Events In October - 16

1922  On October - 16 max Bygraves, London, actor (Tom Brown's School Days)   

1923  Disney Company is founded on October - 16.   

1923  On this day in history disney Company founded   

1923  On this day in history bert Kaempfert, rocker   

1925  Germany Weimar Republic signs Lucarno agreement guaranteeing as equal partner with Western European states the frontiers of Western Europe and that no country will attack or invade the other on October - 16.   

1925  On October - 16 texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution   

1925  On October - 16 peace accord of Locarno signed (Rhine Pact)   

1925  On October - 16 angela Lansbury, London England, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote)   

1926  On October - 16 uS Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200   

1926  On this day in history mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed   

1927  On this day in history gus Yatron, (Rep-D-PA, 1969- )   

1928  On this day in history mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP honors, edging Heinie Manush by 2 points   

1928  Mary Daly, American feminist on this day in history.   

1928  Septimus Kinneir, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies on October - 16.   

1929  On October - 16 bill Green, (Rep-R-NY, 1978- )   

1931  On October - 16 trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd kills her first victim   

1931  Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops 1st on October - 16.   

1934  Mao Tse-tung & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March on October - 16.   

1936  Lou Gehrig, is voted AL MVP by BBWAA on October - 16.   

1939  Sugar rationing begins in Netherlands on October - 16.   

1939  Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer, dies at 63 on October - 16.   

1940  On this day in history benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named first black general in regular army   

1940  Lottery for first US WW II draftees held; #158 was drawn 1st on this day in history.   

1940  Warsaw Ghetto established on this day in history.   

1940  On this day in history benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army   

1941  On October - 16 "Gordo" comic strip first appears in newspapers   

1941  General Hideki Tojo takes over as Japanese Premier on this day in history.   

1941  On October - 16 germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow   

1941  On October - 16 "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers   

1942  On October - 16 cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills 40,000 south of Calcutta India   

1942  Aaron Copland/de Milles ballet "Rodeo," premieres in NYC on October - 16.   

1942  12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed on October - 16.   

1943  Chicago opens new subway system on October - 16.   

1943  The Navy accepted its first helicopter, a Sikorsky YR-4B (HNS-1), at Bridgeport, Connecticut on October - 16.   

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1396  William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450) was born on October - 16.   

1430  King James II of Scotland (d. 1460) was born on October - 16.   

1483  On October - 16 birth of gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)   

1535  On this day in history birth of niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)   

1605  On October - 16 birth of charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer   

1663  Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736) was born on October - 16.   

1679  Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer was born on October - 16.   

1708  On this day in history birth of albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science)   

0775  Mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies on this day in history.   

1323  On October - 16 amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74   

1333  On October - 16 nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies   

1355  Death of Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death on October - 16.   

1473  Reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies on October - 16.   

1553  Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81 on October - 16.   

1555  Death of Hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boley, burned at stake at 80 on October - 16.   

1570  On this day in history death of baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered