Historical Events on October 16.

1. World Anesthesia Day & World Food Day

2. 1757, 16th October: Austrian army captured Germany’s capital Berlin.

3. 1775, 16th October: British troop’s burned down Portland, Maine.

4. 1846, 16th October: Dr. John Warren, an American physician, first used the chemical ether to anesthetize during surgery. 

5. 1868, 16th October: Denmark sold all Nicobar Islands to the British.

6. 1905, 16th October: Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, ordered partition of Bengal.

7. 1919, 16th October: Adolf Hitler delivered his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers’ Party. 

8. 1923, 16th October: The Walt Disney Company was founded by Walt Disney and his brother Roy Disney.

9. 1951, 16th October: Pakistan’s first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated in Rawalpindi.

10. 1968, 16th October: Yasunari Kawabata became the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

11. 1978, 16th October: Wanda Rutkiewicz became the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

12. 1986, 16th October: Reinhold Messner became the first person to climb 14 peaks above 8,000 meters.

13. 1975, 16th October: Rahima Banu, a 2-year-old girl from Bangladesh, became the last patient of Devi (Smallpox).

14. 2005, 16th October: G-20 countries agreed to reform the World Bank and the IMF.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on October 16.

1. 1670: Banda Singh Bahadur, Sikh general.

2. 1854: Oscar Wilde, Irish writer, and playwright.

3. 1878: Vallathol Narayana Menon, an Indian poet.

4. 1886: David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister.

5. 1888: Eugene O’Neill, American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature.

6. 1890: Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary leader.

7. 1896: Seth Govind Das, Indian independence activist, and a distinguished parliamentarian.

8. 1926: Charles Francis “Chuck” Dolan, American billionaire and the founder of Cablevision. 

9. 1946: Naveen Patnaik, Indian politician, chief minister of Orissa. 

10. 1948: Hema Malini, Indian actress, director, producer, Classical dancer, and choreographer.

11. 1952: Crazy Mohan, Indian actor.

12. 1982: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor, director, producer.

13. 2003: Krittika, Princess of Nepal.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on October 16.

1. 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.

2. 1793: Marie-Antoinette, the widow of King Louis XVI of France, was killed on a guillotine.

3. 1799: Veerapadiya Kattabomman, Palayakarrar and chieftain from Panchalankurichi in Tamil Nadu, India. 

4. 1951: Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s first Prime Minister.

5. 1981: Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader, and politician.

6. 1983: Harish-Chandra, American mathematician, and physicist.

7. 1994: Ganesh Ghosh, an Indian independence activist, revolutionary, and politician.

8. 2007: Deborah Kerr, English actresses.

16-October-1788

Maratha's crowned Shahaalam as king of Delhi.

16-October-1878

Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born at Chennara village in Kerala.

16-October-1896

Govindas Seth, hindi litterateur and politician, was born.

16-October-1905

Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. Instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests 'Swadeshi and Swaraj' became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the n]ational movement.

16-October-1906

Shankar Damodar Chitale, famous author and teacher, was born in Secundarabad.

16-October-1920

B. Sathyaji Rao, cricket Test umpire for 17 tests from 1960-79, was born in Karnataka.

16-October-1922

M.V. Desai, social reformer and journalist, was born.

16-October-1936

35 killed in Hindu-Muslim riots at Bombay.

16-October-1942

Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India.

16-October-1945

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) established.

16-October-1952

Pakistan's first Test vs India starts at Delhi.

16-October-1959

National Council of Women's Education was inaugurated in New Delhi.

16-October-1968

Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.

16-October-1971

David Jude Johnson, cricketer (Karnataka fast bowler, India 1996), was born in Arasikere.

16-October-1976

Jalgaon Radio Station started broadcasting.

16-October-1978

Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs Pakistan, at Faisalabad.

16-October-1983

Harish Chandra, great Indian scientist, died. His work in a narrow branch of modern mathematics led to its developement to such an extent that it drew the attention of mathematicians all over the world.

16-October-1990

Dr. Nelson Mandela, conferred with 'Bharat Ratna', the highest civilian honour.

16-October-1990

Om Shivpuri, famous film and theatre artist, died.

16-October-1992

Colonel Prem Kumar Sahgal of Azad Hind Fauz died. During the trial at the Red Fort, he said, "Beacuse I wanted freedom for my motherland, I was ready to shed my blood for it".

16-October-1994

CIA connection to CN Annadurai alleged in book on Seshan, Jayalalitha obtains stay.

16-October-1994

IRS P-2 successfully placed in orbit.

16-October-1997

Queen Elizabeth visits Kalakshetra where she witnesses Bharatanatyam show and film shooting at MGR Film City, Taramani in Chennai. She also goes to Kancheepuram and Sriperumbudur (Rajiv Gandhi memorial).

16-October-1999

A woman is elected as the Speaker of the Sikkim Assembly.

16-October-1999

Geet Sethi bagged the Fred Davis award as the "Billiards Player of the Year 1998-99".

16-October-1999

Indian women claimed bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang.

16-October-1999

Congress (I)-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) combine is invited to form the Government in Maharashtra. Vilasrao Deshmukh to be sworn in as Chief Minister.

16-October-1999

Dr. Najma Heptulla, Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, is elected president of the 138-nation Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

16-October-2000

Rest of India wins the Irani Trophy cricket tournament. Murali Karthik scalps nine for 70, the best figures by a bowler in 38 Irani cup matches.