Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 16

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 * 1384 – Jadwiga (pictured) was officially crowned as "King of Poland" instead of "Queen" to reflect the fact that she was a sovereign in her own right.
 * 1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacked French forces led by Napoleon in the Battle of Leipzig, the largest conflict in the Napoleonic Wars, with over 500,000 troops involved.
 * 1834 – Most of the Palace of Westminster in London was destroyed in a fire caused by the burning of wooden tally sticks.
 * 1875 – Brigham Young University, the largest religious university in the United States, was founded in Provo, Utah.
 * 1905 – Authorities of the British Raj partitioned the Bengal Presidency, separating the largely Muslim eastern areas from the largely Hindu western areas.
 * 1916 – Margaret Sanger established the United States' first family planning clinic in Brooklyn, New York.
 * 1943 – The 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.
 * 1944 – A four-day air battle over Taiwan ended with a decisive American victory, destroying hundreds of Japanese aircraft and military facilities.
 * 1984 – The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.
 * 2013 – In Laos's deadliest air accident, Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashed into the Mekong River, resulting in the deaths of all 49 people aboard.
 * 2017 – The Maltese journalist and anti-corruption activist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in a car bomb attack in Bidnija.


 * Born/died this day: | Pedro González de Lara |d|1130| Johann Rudolf Stadler |d|1637| John Cook |d|1660|  John Hunter |d|1793|Veerapandiya Kattabomman |d|1799| Kathleen Winsor |b|1919| Angela Lansbury |b|1925| Linda November |b|1944|  Tessa Munt |b|1959 | Pamela C. Rasmussen |b|1959| Naomi Osaka|b|1997