This Day In History
October 16
1793
Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1905
The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
1934
Chinese Communists begin the Long March.
1946
Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
1951
The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Cuba begins.
1964
Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively.
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