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Oct 16, 1976

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Events:

Steve Jobs Day
Steve Jobs was a world famous businessman, thought leader and visionary. He spearheaded and revolutionised a number of industries, and lead organisations of...
October 16
Boss' Day
Bosses have a tough time of it - they've got to make all the hard decisions, and chances are they've got to put up with you, too. Buy your boss something nice...
October 16
World Food Day
World Food Day was first launched in 1945. The reason World Food Day was created was to celebrate the launch of the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture...
October 16
Dictionary Day
A day for lexicographers everywhere, Dictionary Day was founded to celebrate the achievements and contributions of Noah Webster - the father of the modern...
October 16
Department Store Day
Department stores have become the powerhouses of the world’s economy, combining multiple types of resources into one easily navigable store. Rather than...
October 16
Feral Cat Day
If the internet is any judge, everyone loves a cat, well… Unless it’s a stray cat, at which point the tropes involve more back-alley caterwauling and boots...
October 16

History Facts:

16-10-1775 Portland Maine burned by British.
16-10-1781 Washington takes Yorktown
16-10-1793 Marie Antoinette beheaded in France.
16-10-1846 Dentist William T. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether
16-10-1849 British seize Tigre Island in Gulf of Fonseca from Honduras.
16-10-1859 John Brown leads group of 20 in a raid on Harper's Ferry Va.
16-10-1861 Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
16-10-1869 Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing
16-10-1916 Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (Bkln)
16-10-1921 Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin -- only mid-game coaching change in NFL history.
16-10-1923 Disney Co founded
16-10-1941 Gordo (by Gus Arriola) 1st appeared in newspapers
16-10-1943 Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens the city's new subway system.
16-10-1946 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials.
16-10-1952 Woolworth's at Powell & Market (S.F.) opens.
16-10-1957 Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip arrive in Virginia
16-10-1962 Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
16-10-1962 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 3 in the world series
16-10-1964 Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Krushchev as head of Russia
16-10-1964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power
16-10-1969 Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
16-10-1970 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
16-10-1971 Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in S.F.
16-10-1973 Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
16-10-1976 Soyuz 23 returns to Earth
16-10-1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II.
16-10-1981 Israel's General Moshe Dayan dies at 66
16-10-1982 Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
16-10-1982 Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins
16-10-1982 Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel
16-10-1984 Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu named Nobel Peace Prize winner
16-10-1985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
16-10-1986 Armand Hammer arrives back in US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb
16-10-1987 175-kph winds cause blackout in London much of southern England.
16-10-1987 18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued 58 hours after she fell 22 feet into a well shaft in Midland TX.

Famous Birthdays:

16-10-1708 Albrecht von Haller, the father of experimental physiology
16-10-1758 Noah Webster, lexicographer
16-10-1792 Francisco Moraz n, (Liberal), president of Central America (1830-40)
16-10-1854 Oscar Wilde, (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) - Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray)
16-10-1863 Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign secretary (Nobel 1925)
16-10-1888 Eugene O'Neill, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms) (Nobel 1936)
16-10-1890 Paul Strand, photographer
16-10-1898 William O. Douglas, former Supreme Court justice
16-10-1908 Enver Hoxha, post-war leader of Albania
16-10-1921 Linda Darnell
16-10-1925 Angela Lansbury, Actress (Murder She Wrote)
16-10-1927 Gunter Grass, German novelist, poet (The Tin Drum)
16-10-1931 Charles W. Colson, pres adviser
16-10-1946 Suzanne Somers, Actress (3's Co) in San Bruno Calif

Date Format By Country

Afghanistan, Japan : 1976-10-16
Argentina, Bahrain, Barbados, Bolivia, Brunei, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica, Jordan, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Malta, Moldova, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Oman, Palau, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Qatar, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singapore, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe : 16-10-1976
Federated States of Micronesia : 10-16-1976
Australia, Belize : 16-10-1976 or 10-16-1976
Macau, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom : 1976-10-16 or 16-10-1976
Albania : 1976-10-16 or 16/10/1976
Algeria, Brazil, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Thailand : 16/10/1976
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greenland, Iceland, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey : 16.10.1976
Austria : 16.10.1976 or 16.10.76 or 16. October 1976 or 16. October 76
Bangladesh : 16-10-76 or 76-10-16
Belgium : 16-10-1976
Turkmenistan : 16.10.1976 or 16.10.76
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia : 16. 10. 1976. or 16. October 1976.
Czech Republic : 16. 10. 1976 or 16. October 1976
Cambodia : 1976-10-16 or 16-10-1976
Canada : 16-10-1976 or 1976 10 16 or 16/10/76 or Oct/16/1976 or Oct 16, 1976 or October 16, 1976 or October-16-76 or 1976-10-16 or 16 October 1976
China, Lithuania, Taiwan - Republic of China : 1976-10-16
Denmark : 16-10-1976 or 16-10-76 or 1976-10-16 or 19761016 or 16. October 1976 or 16/10-76 or 16/10-1976
Estonia : 16.10.1976 or 16. October 1976
Finland, Serbia : 16.10.1976 or 16. October 1976
France, Ireland : 16/10/1976 or 16-10-1976
Germany : 16.10.76 or 16.10.1976 or 1976-10-16 or 16. October 1976
Hong Kong : 16/10/76 or 16/10/1976 or 1976/10/16
Hungary : 1976. 10. 16.
India : 16-10-1976 or 19761016 or 1976 10 16 or 1976-10-16
Iran : 1976/10/16 or 76/10/16 or 1976-10-16 or 16 October 1976
Kazakhstan : 1976.16.10 or 16.10.1976 or 16.10.76
Kenya : 76/10/16 or 16/10/1976 or 10/16/1976
Korea : 1976.10.16 or 1976/10/16
Latvia : 16.10.1976 or 1976.10.16
Luxembourg : 16/10/1976 or 16.10.1976
Maldives : th 1976f October, 1976 or 16.10.1976 or 16.10.76 or 16/10/76 or 16/10/1976 or 16-10-76 or 16-10-1976
Mongolia : 1976.10.16
Montenegro : 16.10.1976
Netherlands : 16-10-76 or 16-10-1976 or 16 October 76 or 16 October 1976
Nigeria : 16/10/76
Norway : 16.10.1976 or 161076 or 1976-10-16 or 16/10-76
Pakistan, Spain : 16/10/76 or 16/10/1976
Philippines : October 16, 1976 or 16-10-1976
Portugal : 16/10/1976 or 16-10-1976 or 1976-10-16
Poland : 16.10.1976
Romania : 16.10.1976 or 16-Oct-1976
Russia : 16.10.1976 or 16.10.76
Saudi Arabia : 16/10/1976 or 10/16/1976
Slovakia : 16. 10. 1976
Slovenia : 1976.10.16 or 16.10.1976 or 16. October 1976
South Africa : 1976-10-16 or 16/10/76
Sweden : 1976-10-16 or 16/10 1976 or 16/10 -76 or 16.10.1976
Ukraine : 16.10.76 or 16.10.1976 or 16/10/1976
United States of America : 10/16/76 or 10/16/1976 or 16 October 1976 or 16 Oct 1976 or 1976-10-16
Uzbekistan : 16.10.1976 or 16/10 1976

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