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