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 Historical Events -  October 16

 1757 : Austrian army captured Germany’s capital Berlin.

1775 : British troop’s burned down Portland, Maine.

1846 : Dr. John Warren, an American physician, first used the chemical ether to anesthetize during surgery. 

1868 : Denmark sold all Nicobar Islands to the British.

1905 : Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, ordered partition of Bengal.

1919 : Adolf Hitler delivered his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers’ Party. 

1923 : The Walt Disney Company was founded by Walt Disney and his brother Roy Disney.

1951 : Pakistan’s first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated in Rawalpindi.

1968 : Yasunari Kawabata became the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1978 : Wanda Rutkiewicz became the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

1986 : Reinhold Messner became the first person to climb 14 peaks above 8,000 meters.

1975 : Rahima Banu, a 2-year-old girl from Bangladesh, became the last patient of Devi (Smallpox).

2005 : G-20 countries agreed to reform the World Bank and the IMF.

Famous Birthdays   – October 16  

1670: Banda Singh Bahadur, Sikh general.

1854: Oscar Wilde, Irish writer, and playwright.

1878: Vallathol Narayana Menon, an Indian poet.

1886: David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister.

1888: Eugene O’NeillAmerican playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature.

1890: Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary leader.

1896: Seth Govind Das, Indian independence activist, and a distinguished parliamentarian.

1926: Charles Francis “Chuck” Dolan, American billionaire and the founder of Cablevision. 

1946: Naveen Patnaik, Indian politician, chief minister of Orissa. 

1948: Hema Malini, Indian actress, director, producer, Classical dancer, and choreographer.

1952: Crazy Mohan, Indian actor.

1982: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor, director, producer.

2003: Krittika, Princess of Nepal.

 

Death Anniversaries   – October 16

1772: Ahmad Shāh Durrānī, also known as Ahmad Shah Abdali, the founder of the Durrani Empire and is regarded as the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan.

1793: Marie-Antoinette, the widow of King Louis XVI of France, was killed on a guillotine.

1799: Veerapadiya Kattabomman, Palayakarrar and chieftain from Panchalankurichi in Tamil Nadu, India. 

1951: Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s first Prime Minister.

1981: Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader, and politician.

1983: Harish-Chandra, American mathematician, and physicist.

1994: Ganesh Ghosh, an Indian independence activist, revolutionary, and politician.

2007: Deborah Kerr, English actresses.

Historical Events - October 17

 1831 : Michael Faraday demonstrated the properties of electromagnetic induction.

1878 : John A. McDonald was elected Prime Minister of Canada once again after playing the role of opposition in government for five years.

1888 : Thomas Edison filed a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).

1933 : Albert Einstein fled from Nazi Germany to the United States.

1943 : The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) was completed.

1956 : The first commercial nuclear power plant was officially opened in England.

1966 : Botswana and Lesotho joined the United Nations.

1979 : Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1998 : Awarded United Nations Prize to Fatima B. for setting up a model social service project in Andhra Pradesh.

2003 : China succeeded in sending humans to space as Asia’s first in space and third country after Russia.

 

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