THE DAY IN HISTORY · OCTOBER 16
October 16 in history
What happened on October 16: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1905, 1946 and 1964, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Swadeshi movement
16 Oct 1905 — On the day partition took effect, people in Bengal mourned and boycotted British goods. They burned foreign cloth, refused British salt and sugar, and founded national schools. Rabindranath Tagore led crowds tying rakhi threads on Hindu and Muslim wrists as a sign of shared protest.
READ THIS MOMENT → · SEE IT ON THE INDIAN INDEPENDENCE & PARTITION MAP → · THE FULL STORY →
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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— China’s first nuclear test
16 Oct 1964 — China exploded its first atomic bomb in the Xinjiang desert, becoming the fifth nuclear power. The device was codenamed 596 for June 1959, when Moscow reneged on its promise to supply a sample bomb. The test came two days after Khrushchev’s fall, and China had achieved it largely without the promised help.
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