On this day: October 16

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October 16

Háry János poster​

• 1384 – Jadwiga was officially crowned as "King of Poland" instead of "Queen" to reflect the fact that she was a sovereign in her own right.
• 1875 – Brigham Young University was founded in Provo, Utah, United States.
• 1926 – Háry János (poster pictured), a Hungarian folk opera by Zoltán Kodály, was premiered at the Royal Hungarian Opera House in Budapest.
• 1950 – The first novel of the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was published in the United Kingdom.
• 2017 – The Maltese journalist and anti-corruption activist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in a car bomb attack in Bidnija.

• Shams al-Din Juvayni (d. 1284)
• Pamela C. Rasmussen (b. 1959)
• Naomi Osaka (b. 1997)
• Baek Se-hee (d. 2025)

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