What happend on 16th October

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1968

United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked out of the USA's team for performing a Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.

1968

Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.

1964

People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon

1951

The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi

1949

Nikos Zakhiariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.

1946

Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg trials hanged.

1940

Warsaw Ghetto established

1940

Benjamin O. Davis Sr. named first African American general in the United States Army

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.

1912

Bulgarian pilots Radul Milkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the first bombing with an airplane in history.