📜 This Day in History

October 16

• 1384Jadwiga was officially crowned as "King of Poland" instead of "Queen" to reflect the fact that she was a sovereign in her own right.
• 1834Most of the Palace of Westminster in London was destroyed in a fire caused by the burning of wooden tally sticks.
• 1916Margaret Sanger established the United States' first family planning clinic in Brooklyn, New York.
• 1943The Holocaust: The Gestapo conducted a raid on the Roman Ghetto, capturing 1,259 members of the Jewish community, most of whom were sent to Auschwitz.
• 1973The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize would be jointly awarded to Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ, sparking international controversy.
• 2017The Maltese journalist and anti-corruption activist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in a car bomb attack in Bidnija.

Born on this day

• 1854Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (died 1900)
• 1886David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (died 1973)
• 1888Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1953)
• 1927Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)