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The following events took place on October 16. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 57 events. Showing 31 - 57.

• 1949

  Nikos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a “temporary cease-fire”, effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
• 1949

  The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.
• 1951

  The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
• 1964

  China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
• 1964

  Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.
• 1968

  United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
• 1968

  Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
• 1968

  Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1970

  In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
• 1973

  Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1975

  The Balibo Five, a group of Australian-based television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
• 1975

  Rahima Banu, a two-year-old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
• 1975

  The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government’s annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
• 1978

  Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
• 1978

  Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
• 1984

  The Bill debuts on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.
• 1984

  Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1986

  Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
• 1991

  Luby’s shooting: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby’s Cafeteria.
• 1993

  Anti-Nazism riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
• 1995

  The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C.
• 1995

  The Skye Bridge is opened.
• 1996

  Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
• 1998

  Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
• 2002

  Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
• 2012

  The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered.
• 2013

  Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.

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