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October 16

 * 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire
 * 1813 - The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
 * 1946 - Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg trials hanged.
 * 1949 - Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.