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Events on October 16

• 1793 During the French Revolution, Marie-Antoinette, who had been sentenced to death the previous day, is publicly guillotined.
• 1813 The Battle of Leipzig, the decisive battle of the Wars of Liberation between the French under Napoleon Bonaparte and the allied Austrians, Russians, Prussians, and Swedes, begins.
• 1906 Wilhelm Voigt, the Captain of Köpenick, arrests the mayor of Köpenick, Georg Langerhans, and “seizes” the city treasury.
• 1923 In Burbank, Walt and Roy O. Disney found the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the future Walt Disney Company.
• 1934 The Chinese Communists under the leadership of Mao Zedong begin the Long March.
• 1946 The ten defendants who were still alive and had been sentenced to death in the Nuremberg trial of the major war criminals are hanged.
• 1963 Ludwig Erhard (CDU) is elected Federal Chancellor of Germany as the successor to Konrad Adenauer.
• 1968 The track and field athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are expelled from the U.S. team and the Olympic Village after they made a political statement during the medal ceremony for the 200-meter race at the Olympic Games with the Black Power symbol, the raised clenched fist in black gloves.
• 1978 The Polish Karol Wojtyła is elected in the 8th ballot of the conclave as the successor to Pope John Paul I, who died on September 28, and takes the name Pope John Paul II. He is the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI († 1523).
• 1986 The mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander reach the summit of Lhotse. Messner thereby becomes the first mountaineer to have climbed all fourteen eight-thousanders.
• 1998 The former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on the basis of a Spanish arrest warrant and a request for extradition on a charge of genocide.
• 2009 After 70 years of closure, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel opens the New Museum, which houses, among other things, the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, including the bust of the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti.

Born on October 16

• 1854 Oscar Wilde, Irish writer
• 1874 Otto Mueller, German painter
• 1890 Michael Collins, Irish freedom fighter and politician
• 1912 Lotti Huber, German artist
• 1931 Hans Friderichs, German politician and manager
• 1953 Dietrich Adam, German actor
• 1970 Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
• 1971 Michael von der Heide, Swiss singer
• 1991 Jedward, Irish music duo
• 2002 Jule Brand, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „16. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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