This day in history
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Wednesday, 15 October 2014
On this day... October 16:
On this day...
October 16
:
World Food Day
456
–
Magister militum
Ricimer
defeated Emperor
Avitus
at
Piacenza
and became master of the
Western Roman Empire
.
1834
– Most of the
Palace of Westminster
in London was
destroyed
in a fire.
1923
–
Roy
and
Walt Disney
(pictured)
founded the
Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio
in
Hollywood
that eventually grew to become one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world.
1934
–
Surrounded
by
Kuomintang
troops,
Zhou Enlai
,
Bo Gu
, and
Otto Braun
led 130,000
Red Army
soldiers and civilians on a "
Long March
" from
Jiangxi
.
1984
–
The Bill
debuted on
ITV
, eventually becoming the longest-running
police procedural
in British television history.
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