On October 16
On October 16, 3 pivotal events are recorded in the Human Saga, including Cuban Missile Crisis (1962).
On this day
For thirteen days in October 1962 the United States and the Soviet Union came closer to nuclear war than at any other point in the Cold War. After U.S.
16 October 690 CEWu Zetian Proclaims the Zhou Dynasty and Becomes China's Only Female EmperorPolitics & governance
On 16 October 690 CE, Wu Zetian formally declared herself huangdi (emperor), supplanting the Tang dynasty with her own short-lived Zhou dynasty and becoming the only woman in the history of China to rule as emperor in her own right rather…
Fought from 16 to 19 October 1813 around Leipzig in Saxony, the Battle of the Nations was the largest engagement of the Napoleonic Wars and one of the largest in European history before the twentieth century, involving more than half a…