MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · October 16
THE DAY IN HISTORY · OCTOBER 16
October 16 in history
1905 — Calcutta — Swadeshi
16 Oct 1905 — The day partition takes effect, Bengal answers with mourning and boycott: foreign cloth burned, British salt and sugar refused, national schools founded. Rabindranath Tagore leads crowds tying rakhi threads — Hindu and Muslim wrists bound in protest.
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1946
Ten leaders of the Third Reich are hanged at Nuremberg, convicted under a new idea: that individuals answer for state crimes.
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