The October 16th is the 289e Jour of the Année (290e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

11th century

  • 1094 : The council of Autun, where thirty-two bishops are brought together, pronounces the Excommunication Philippe I {{er}}, King de France.

15th century

18th century

19th century

  • 1813 : The Napoleonean army is beaten with Leipzig in the “Bataille of the Nations”.

  • 1834 : Set fire to with the British Parlement, the damage are important.

  • 1866 : Plundering of the monastery of the island Korea of Kanghwa and bombardment of Seoul by a forwarding of the admiral Roze, in reprisals of the massacre of nine French missionaries.

20th century

  • 1940 :

    • the ghetto of Warsaw is created by the Nazis.
    • the the United States stop all exports of steel and scrap bound for the Japan.

  • 1951 : Assassination of the First Pakistani minister Ali Khan.

  • 1964 : The China explodes its first atomic bomb and becomes the 5th world nuclear power.

  • 1978 : The Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Cracow, is elected pope and takes the name of Jean-Paul II.

  • 1982 : Birth of Frederic Michalak <3

  • 1984 :

    • the body of small the Grégory Villemin, four years and half, is discovered in the Vologne, with six kilometers of the residence of his/her parents, with Lépanges (the Vosges).
    • Desmond Tutu, bishop black Anglican South-African, receives the Nobel Prize of peace.

  • 1987 : In France, the association of the “surrogate mothers” is prohibited.

  • 1991 : With the Texas, exaggerated keep silent 22 people in a restaurant, before committing suicide.

  • 1995 : With the call of the movement black extremist " the Nation of Islam " , a " marche" is organized with Washington for a " holy day of atonement and réconciliation".

21e century

  • 2001 : The Socialists of Slobodan Milosevic sign the agreement of division of the capacity in Serbia with the coalition of the new president Vojislav Kostunica.

  • 2002 :

    • the North Korea declares with the the United States that it has a secret program of nuclear armament.
    • the rebels who control the major part of the north of the Ivory Coast accept a cease-fire at the conclusion of their discussions with the mediators of West Africa, come to meet them in their stronghold of Bouaké in the center of the country.

  • 2003 :

    • 25 years of pontificate of the Pope Jean-Paul II.
    • the Minister of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy reveals with Ajaccio the new plate in homage to the prefect assassinated Claude Erignac; the preceding plate had been thrown to ground and had been broken in several pieces by the unknown ones.
    • Signature of the final agreement of bringing together between the two companies Royal Air France and KLM Dutch Airlines which " will lead to the creation of the first European group of aérien" transport;.
    • the 15 members of the Safety advice of the United Nations approve the American resolution unanimously aiming at obtaining international troops and money to take part in the efforts of rebuilding in Iraq.

  • 2007 :

    • Bertrand Cantat, singer of Noir Desire leaves prison in a conditional way after 4 years of detention

Births

Death

Celebrations

  • world Day of the food.

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

Catholic saints of the day

  • Holy Hedwige of Silesia

See too

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