WHAT HAPPENED ON 16. OCTOBER
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The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer. (16. October 1906)

In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States. (16. October 1916)

The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney. (16. October 1923)

Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman. (16. October 1934)

World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe. (16. October 1939)

Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established. (16. October 1940)

Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker's first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz's cartoon. (16. October 1944)

The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada. (16. October 1945)

Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial. (16. October 1946)

Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War. (16. October 1949)

The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established. (16. October 1949)

The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi. (16. October 1951)

The Cuban missile crisis between the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union begins when US President John F. Kennedy is shown photographs of missile sites in Cuba. (16. October 1962)

China detonates its first nuclear weapon. (16. October 1964)

Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established. (16. October 1964)

United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute. (16. October 1968)

Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country. (16. October 1968)

Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. (16. October 1968)

In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act. (16. October 1970)

Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (16. October 1973)