This Day In History

October 16
1905
The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
1934
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.
1945
The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
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.
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.
1998
Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.