Today in History
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1986 First Person to Scale all Eight-Thousanders
Italian Mountaineer, Reinhold Messner, scaled the Lhotse, in Nepal. It is the world’s 4th tallest pe
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1978 First Non-Italian to Win the Papacy since 1523
Karol Józef Wojtyła, the Archbishop of Kraków, won the papal elections that were held after his pred
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1964 First Chinese Nuclear Test
Codenamed Chic-1 or 596, the 22 kiloton uranium fission device was dropped at Lop Nur. With this tes
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1945 Food and Agriculture Organization established
The Food and Agriculture Organization, popularly known as the FAO was established in Quebec City, Ca
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1923 The Walt Disney Company is Founded
A leader in the international entertainment industry, the company was created by brothers Walt and R
Births On This Day,
October, 16
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1977 John Mayer
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer
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1974 Paul Kariya
Canadian ice hockey player
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1925 Angela Lansbury
English/American actress, singer
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1888 Eugene O'Neill
American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
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1886 David Ben-Gurion
Israeli politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel
Deaths On This Day,
October, 16
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2011 Dan Wheldon
English race car driver
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1981 Moshe Dayan
Israeli general, politician, 5th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Israel)
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1951 Liaquat Ali Khan
Indian/Pakistani lawyer, politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan
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1793 Marie Antoinette
Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France
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1791 Grigory Potemkin
Russian military leader, politician
