Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 16

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  Hans Frank
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  Margaret Sanger
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  Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
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  Marie Antoinette
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  Girton College
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  William Rowan Hamilton
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  Broom Bridge
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  Million Man March
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  John Brown
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  Walt Disney\
• Bibliotheca Alexandrina
  Bibliotheca Alexandrina
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  Walt Disney

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Blurb	Reason
: World Food Day	unreferenced section
456 – Magister militum Ricimer defeated Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and became master of the Western Roman Empire.	refimprove section
955 – The German forces of Otto the Great defeated the Obotrite federation at the Battle on the Raxa, marking the high point of Otto's reign.	date not referenced, a couple of other cites needed, and "high point of Otto's reign" needs rewording as that is a subjective opinion
1590 – Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo caught his wife having an extramarital affair with Duke Fabrizio Carafa of Andria and killed them both on the spot.	refimprove section
1793 – Marie Antoinette, queen consort of Louis XVI, was guillotined at the Place de la Révolution in Paris at the height of the French Revolution.	uncited sections
1843 – William Rowan Hamilton first wrote down the fundamental formula for quaternions, carving the equation into the side of Broom Bridge in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland.	unreferenced section
1846 – American dentist [[William T. G. Morton|William Template:Nowrap Morton]] made a widely publicized demonstration of ether as a general anaesthetic.	lots of CN tags in one section
1859 – Hoping to start an armed slave revolt, American abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the Harpers Ferry Armory in Virginia.	essay-like
1869 – Workers in Cardiff, New York, uncovered a 10 ft (3.0 m) tall petrified man, which was later revealed to be a hoax.	refimprove section
1869 – Girton College (pictured), one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge and England's first residential college for women, was founded.	updated needed tag
1934 – Surrounded by Kuomintang troops, Zhou Enlai, Bo Gu, and Otto Braun led 130,000 Red Army soldiers and civilians on a "Long March" from Jiangxi.	refimprove section
1940 – World War II: Nazi governor-general Hans Frank established the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Poland.	refimprove section for list of people
1945 – The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in Quebec City, Canada, to lead international efforts to defeat hunger.	refimprove section
1951 – The first prime minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, was assassinated in Rawalpindi.	section needs to be rewritten
1968 – To protest racism in the United States, African American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos performed the Black Power salute during a medal ceremony at the Mexico City Summer Olympics.	refimprove section
1972 – Emmerdale Farm, the United Kingdom's second-oldest soap opera, was first broadcast in the daytime on ITV.	Unreffed parts
1975 – Five journalists for Australian television networks based in the town of Balibo were killed by Indonesian special force soldiers prior to their invasion of East Timor.	Date not cited
1984 – The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.	refimprove section
1986 – Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner made his ascent of Lhotse, making him the first person to climb all fourteen "eight-thousanders".	refimprove section
1995 – Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam convened the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., in an effort to unite in self-help and self-defense against economic and social ills plaguing the African American community.	citation formatting issues
1996 – At least 83 people were killed and more than 140 injured in a stampede at Guatemala City's Estadio Mateo Flores during a World Cup qualification match between Guatemala and Costa Rica.	unreferenced sections
2002 – The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (pictured) in Alexandria, Egypt, a commemoration of the ancient library that was lost in antiquity, was officially inaugurated.	Primary sources
John Cook |d|1660|	Yellow "Too many quotes" banner

Eligible

• 1793 – War of the First Coalition: The two-day Battle of Wattignies concluded with Jean-Baptiste Jourdan leading French forces to victory over Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
• 1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacked French forces led by Napoleon in the Battle of Leipzig, the largest conflict in the Napoleonic Wars, with over 500,000 troops involved.
• 1834 – Most of the Palace of Westminster in London was destroyed in a fire caused by the burning of wooden tally sticks.
• 1841 – The Church of Scotland established Queen's College in Kingston, Ontario, in Canada.
• 1916 – Margaret Sanger (pictured) established the United States' first family planning clinic in Brooklyn, New York.
• 1923 – Roy and Walt Disney (pictured) founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in Hollywood, which eventually grew to become one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: The Gestapo conducted a raid on the Roman Ghetto, capturing 1,259 members of the Jewish community, most of whom were sent to Auschwitz.
• 1944 – A four-day air battle over Taiwan ended with a decisive American victory, destroying hundreds of Japanese aircraft and military facilities.
• 1964 – With the success of Project 596, China became the world's fifth nuclear power.
• 1973 – The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize would be jointly awarded to Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ, sparking international controversy.
• 1991 – A man drove his vehicle through the window of a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, and opened fire, killing 23 people before fatally shooting himself.
• 2013 – In Laos's deadliest air accident, Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashed into the Mekong River, resulting in the deaths of all 49 people aboard.

• Born/died this day: | Pedro González de Lara |d|1130| Shams al-Din Juvayni |d|1284| Johann Rudolf Stadler |d|1637| John Hunter |d|1793| Veerapandiya Kattabomman |d|1799| Lucy Stanton |b|1831| Kathleen Winsor |b|1919| Angela Lansbury |b|1925| Linda November |b|1944| Paul Monette |b|1945| Hema Malini |b|1948| Pamela C. Rasmussen |b|1959| Naomi Osaka|b|1997| Baek Se-hee|d|2025| Jayananda Warnaweera|d|2025|

Notes

• Bob Beamon appears on October 18, so Black Power salute should not appear in the same year.
• Luzhniki disaster (another human stampede) appears on October 20, so Estadio Mateo Flores should not appear in the same year

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• 1384 – Jadwiga (pictured) was officially crowned as "King of Poland" instead of "Queen" to reflect the fact that she was a sovereign in her own right.
• 1875 – Brigham Young University was founded in Provo, Utah, United States.
• 1905 – Authorities of the British Raj partitioned the Bengal Presidency, separating the largely Muslim eastern areas from the largely Hindu western areas.
• 1950 – The first novel of the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was published in the United Kingdom.
• 2017 – The Maltese journalist and anti-corruption activist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in a car bomb attack in Bidnija.