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16 October

🇮🇳 In India
1878
Vallathol Narayana Menon
Vallathol Narayana Menon
Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born in Chennara village in Kerala. He was one of the triumvirate poets of modern Malayalam, along with Kumaran Asan and Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer.
1905 Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. But instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests "Swadeshi and Swaraj" became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the national movement. Announced on 19 July 1905 by Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of India, the partition was implemented on this day.
1968 Har Gobind Khorana, the Indian-American biochemist, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's synthesis of proteins.
1978 Test debut of Kapil Dev, in an India verses Pakistan match at Faisalabad.
1983 Harish-Chandra, Indian American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semi-simple Lie groups, died.
🌎 Elsewhere
1758 American lexicographer Noah Webster, who was instrumental in giving American English a dignity and vitality of its own, was born.
1846 William Thomas Green Morton first demonstrated the use of ether as a general anesthetic before a gathering of physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
1847 English novelist Charlotte Brontë (under the pseudonym Currer Bell) published Jane Eyre, which became a classic noted for giving new truthfulness to the Victorian novel.
1888 American dramatist Eugene O'Neill, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936, was born.
1923 The Walt Disney Company is founded.
1927 Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born.
1950 The first edition of C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is released in London.
1951 The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis began as President John F Kennedy is shown photos confirming the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. It was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
1964 China, eager to join the nuclear race, successfully detonated its first atomic bomb.
1986 Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright and poet, becomes the first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
2002 Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated. The Library of Alexandria was burnt down by Julius Caesar in 48 BC.
2004 17-year old Lionel Messi makes his league debut for FC Barcelona.
2018 Man Booker Prize is won by Anna Burns' Milkman, the first winner from Northern Ireland.
⭐ Significance
World Food Day is an international day celebrated every year worldwide on 16 October to commemorate the date of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945.


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