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What happened in history on this day: October 16?
On October 16 in ...
- 1775 - Portland, Maine burned by British.
- 1781 - General George Washington takes Yorktown.
- 1786 - Continental Congress authorizes coinage system of gold piece valued at $10, silver piece at $1, tenth dollar in silver, and copper penny.
- 1829 - Tremont Hotel, first US modern hotel opens (Boston, Massachusetts).
- 1846 - At Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Dr. William Thomas Green Morton performs world's first anaesthetization of a patient, then surgeons perform removal of a cyst.
- 1848 - First US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania.
- 1859 - Abolitionist John Brown leads 21 men in a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
- 1861 - Confederate States of America starts selling postage stamps.
- 1869 - The Cardiff Giant is discovered (a hoax).
- 1869 - Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts becomes first in the US to have indoor plumbing.
- 1875 - Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
- 1876 - Race riot at Cainhoy, South Carolina, USA (5 whites and one black killed).
- 1909 - The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, held in Seattle, Washington, closes. 3.75 million visitors attended.
- 1916 - Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic in US (Brooklyn, New York).
- 1923 - Walt and Roy Disney, as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, sign a contract with M.J. Winkler Productions, a New York film distributor, to produce six Alice Comedy short films, for US$1500 each, with an option for six more.
- 1925 - Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution.
- 1943 - Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new subway system.
- 1956 - William J Brennan Junior becomes a US Supreme Court Justice.
- 1962 - US President John Kennedy becomes aware of missiles in Cuba.
- 1971 - Amphitheater in McLaren Park is dedicated in San Francisco, California.
- 1973 - US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1982 - George Shultz warns US will withdraw from United Nations if they vote to exclude Israel.
- 1985 - Intel introduces the 16 MHz 80386 processor. With a 32-bit data bus, it can directly address four gigabytes of memory. Processor speed is three to four million instructions per second. Intel spent $100 million developing the processor.
- 1986 - Armand Hammer returns to US with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb.
- 1986 - US government closes down due to budget problems.
- 1987 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average for the first time falls more than 100 points (108.35).
- 1989 - A drawing is held by American music video station VH-1, giving away 36 Corvettes, one from each model year. Dennis Amodeo is the winner. He later sells the cars for US$1.5 million.
- 1990 - US forces reach 200,000 in the Persian Gulf.
- 1991 - George Jo Hennard, age 35, kills 23 and himself and wounds 20 in Killeen, Texas.
- 1995 - The Million Man March is held in Washington, D.C. The event was conceived by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
- 1999 - In Southern California, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurs. Few injuries, light damage.
- 2002 - US President George W. Bush signs the Iraq War Resolution.
- 2007 - Stack's of New York conducts the 23rd and final auction of the John J. Ford Junior Collection. After 23 auctions of coins, tokens, currency, and numismatic books, the total price realized is $58 million, a record for a single collection.
- 2008 - American second largest bank Citigroup posts its fourth straight quarterly loss of $13 billion due to write-downs and credit losses. The bank has recorded US$71 billion in losses over five quarters.
- 2021 - The Lucy spacecraft is launched by NASA, the first mission to explore the Trojan asteroids.
Births on October 16
- 1888 - Birth of Eugene O'Neill in New York City, New York, USA; dramatist (Desire Under the Elms - Nobel Prize 1936) (dies 1953).
- 1890 - Birth of Paul Strand in New York City, New York, USA; photographer (Native Land - 1942).
- 1898 - Birth of William O Douglas in Maine, USA; US supreme court justice (1939-75).
- 1900 - Birth of Lloyd Corrigan in San Francisco, California, USA; actor (Papa Dodger - Willy, Prof McKillup - Hank).
- 1905 - Birth of Rex Bell in Chicago, Illinois, USA; cowboy (Cowboys and Injuns).
- 1913 - Birth of Alice Pearce in New York City, New York, USA; comedienne/actress (Gladys Kravitz - Bewitched).
- 1921 - Birth of Linda Darnell in Dallas, Texas, USA; actress (Unfaithfully Yours, Second Chance).
- 1921 - Birth of Michael Conrad in Washington Heights, New York, USA; actor (Delvecchio, Hill Street Blues).
- 1932 - Birth of Henry Lewis in Los Angeles, California, USA; conductor/bass (Los Angeles Philharmonic 1955-59).
- 1937 - Birth of Tony Anthony in Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA; actor (Treasure of Four Crowns).
- 1940 - Birth of Dave DeBusschere in Detroit, Michigan, USA; NBA forward (New York Knicks)/last ABA commissioner.
- 1946 - Birth of Suzanne Mahoney in San Bruno, California; actor (Chrissy Snow - Three's Company TV show (1977-1981), She's the Sheriff TV show, Step by Step TV show (1991-1998)).
- 1955 - Birth of Ellen Dolan in Iowa, USA; actress (Guiding Light, Margo Hughes - ATWT).
- 1978 - Birth of Abel Talamantez in Texas, USA; singer (Menudo - "Cannonball").
Deaths on October 16
- 1998 - Death of Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (born 1943).
- 2004 - Death of Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary (born 1925).
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