October 16 History, Events, Famous Birthdays, Music History, Notable Passings
October 16 History
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1701 - The Collegiate School was founded in Killingworth, CT. The school moved to New Haven in 1745 and changed its name to Yale College.
1758 - Author Noah Webster was born. He was a teacher and journalist whose name is associated with the word "dictionary."
1793 - During the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded.
1829 - The first modern hotel in America opened. The Tremont Hotel had 170 rooms that rented for $2 a day and included four meals.
1846 - Ether, the painkiller, was used for the first time. The drug was invented by dentist William T. Morton.
1859 - Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA (now located in West Virginia).
1869 - A hotel in Boston became the first in the U.S. to install indoor plumbing.
1898 - Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas was born. He served for 36 years on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1916 - Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in New York City, NY.
1923 - Walt Disney contracted with M.J. Winkler to distribute the Alice Comedies. This event is recognized as the start of the Disney Company.
Disney movies, music and books
1928 - Marvin Pipkin received a patent for the frosted electric light bulb.
1939 - "Right To Happiness" debuted on the NBC-Blue network.
1939 - "The Man Who Came to Dinner" opened on Broadway.
1941 - The Nazis advanced to within 60 miles of Moscow. Romanians entered Odessa, USSR, and began exterminating 150,000 Jews.
1942 - The ballet "Rodeo" premiered in New York City.
1943 - Chicago's new subway system was officially opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
1944 - "The Robe," by Lloyd Douglas, was published for the first time.
1945 - "His Honor the Barber" debuted on NBC Radio.
1946 - 10 Nazi war criminals were hanged after being condemned by the Nuremberg trials.
1955 - Mrs. Jules Lederer replaced Ruth Crowley in newspapers using the name Ann Landers.
1962 - U.S. President Kennedy was informed that there were missile bases in Cuba, beginning the Cuban missile crisis.
1964 - China detonated its first atomic bomb becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.
1967 - NATO headquarters opened in Brussels.
1970 - Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt to succeed Gamal Abdel Nassar.
1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Vietnamese official declined the award.
1987 - Rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned well that she had fallen into in Midland, TX. The was trapped for 58 hours.
1989 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed the Gramm-Rudman budget reduction law that ordered federal programs be cut by $16.1 billion.
1990 - Comedian Steve Martin and his wife Victoria Tennant visited U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia.
1990 - The play "Stand Up Tragedy" closed after only 13 performances.
1991 - George Hennard crashed his truck into a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, TX and began a shooting rampage in which he killed 23 people before taking his own life.
1993 - The U.N. Security Council approved the deployment of U.S. warships to enforce a blockade on Haiti to increase pressure on the controlling military leaders.
1994 - German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was re-elected to a fourth term.
1995 - The "Million Man March" took place in Washington, DC.
1997 - Charles M. Schulz and his wife Jeannie announced that they would give $1 million toward the construction of a D-Day memorial to be placed in Virginia.
2000 - It was announced that Chevron Corp. would be buying Texaco Inc. for $35 billion. The combined company was called Chevron Texaco Corp. and became the 4th largest oil company in the world.
2002 - It was reported that North Korea had told the U.S. that it had a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of an 1994 agreement with the U.S.
2002 - The Arthur Andersen accounting firm was sentenced to five years probation and fined $500,000 for obstructing a federeal investigation of the energy company Enron.
2008 - The iTunes Music Store reached 200 billion television episodes sold.
October 16 Birthdays
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Noah Webster 1758
Oscar Wilde 1854
David Ben-Gurion 1886
Eugene O'Neill 1888
Linda Darnell 1921
Bert Kaempfert 1923
Angela Lansbury 1925
Gunter Grass 1927
Charles Colson 1931
Tony Anthony 1937
Nico (Velvet Underground) 1938
Barry Corbin 1940
Fred Turner (Bachman Turner Overdrive) 1943
Dwight Douglas Lewis 1945
Suzanne Somers (Mahoney) 1946
Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) 1947
Bob Collyard 1949
Tim Robbins 1958
Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet) 1959
Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 1962
Wendy Wilson (Wilson Phillips) 1969
B-Rock (B-Rock and the Bizz) 1971
Kellie Martin 1975
Jeremy Jackson 1980
October 16 Music History
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1679 - Composer Jan Dismas Zelenka was born.
1821 - Composer Albert Franz Doppler was born.
1951 - Little Richard held his first recording session in Atlanta, GA.
1954 - Elvis Presley made his first radio appearance on the "Louisiana Hayride."
1956 - The Elvis Presley film "Love Me Tender" premiered.
1957 - "You Send Me," by Sam Cooke, was released by Keen Records.
1965 - The Beatles were decorated with the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth.
John Lennon Merchandise - Today in Beatles History - Beatles apparel and gear
1966 - Joan Baez and 123 other anti-draft demonstrators were arrested for blocking the entrance to the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland, CA.
1968 - The New Yardbirds played their first concert. The band later changed their name to Led Zeppelin.
Led Zeppelin Apparel and Gear
1971 - Isaac Hayes' "Theme From Shaft" was released.
1972 - A statement was released by Creedance Clearwater Revival that announced the group's break up.
1976 - Stevie Wonder's "Song in the Key of Life" was released.
1982 - RCA Records released "H2O" by Daryl Hall and John Oates.
1989 - The single "The Arms Of Orion" was released by Prince.
1992 - Sinead O'Connor was booed off stage at Madison Square Garden during a show to honor Bob Dylan.
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