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October 16, 2023: This Day in History


Release time:

2023-10-16

October 16, 690: Wu Zetian ascends to the throne

October 16, 1593: Birth of Hong Chengchou, a distinguished official who served two dynasties

October 16, 1905: Birth of Wang Shumming, a First-Class General of the Kuomintang Air Force

October 16, 1913: Birth of Qian Sanqiang, a key figure in China's "two bombs, one satellite" program

October 16, 1922: Failure of the Kaolan Coal Mine workers' strike

October 16, 1933: Failure of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army

October 16, 1949: Establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Mongolia

October 16, 1950: The People's Liberation Army advances into Tibet

October 16, 1954: Yu Pingbo's "Letter on Research Issues Concerning Dream of the Red Chamber" published

October 16, 1964: Brezhnev replaces Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU

October 16, 1964: China successfully detonates its first atomic bomb

October 16, 1973: The world-shaking oil crisis erupts

October 16, 1982: China successfully launches a carrier rocket from a submarine to a designated sea area

October 16, 1988: Successful collision of the Beijing Electron Positron Collider

October 16, 1990: Xie Jun wins the right to challenge for the world championship

October 16, 1991: Qian Xuesen receives the "National Outstanding Contribution Scientist" honor

October 16, 1994: Closing ceremony of the 12th Hiroshima Asian Games

October 16, 1994: Discovery of the tomb of Qinling artisans who made the Qin terracotta warriors

October 16, 1995: Million Man March in the United States

October 16, 1999: New edition of the "Cihai" encyclopedia published

October 16, 1999: Closing ceremony of the 34th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

October 16, 2000: Publication of the white paper "China's National Defense in 2000"

October 16, 2002: The second meeting of the Global Environment Facility member countries is held in Beijing

October 16, 2009: The 11th National Games held in Shandong Province

October 16, 2010: 3 million people march in France to protest the government's proposed postponement of the retirement age

October 16, 2015: Alibaba acquires Youku Tudou

October 16, 2017: Humanity's first detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star system