October 16, 1995: Tens of thousands at ‘Million Man March’
Today in history: October 16, 1995: Tens of thousands at ‘Million Man March’
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Tens of thousands at ‘Million Man March’
1995 - Tens of thousands of American black men converged on Washington for a rally organised by controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as a day of atonement and reconciliation. Wearing jackets and hats against the pre-dawn chill, participants from as far away as California arrived in large numbers overnight for the ‘Million Man March’, actually planned as a massive rally on the west front of the US Capitol. “We’ve got hundreds of thousands more on the way,” Benjamin Chavis, another march organiser, told the crowd. “We’re going to have a good day today. Long live the spirit of the ‘Million Man March’,” Chavis said, and the throng repeated his words. African drums beat, pop music blared and stranger embraced stranger in brotherhood.
October 16
1793 - Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded during the French Revolution.
1945 - The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations is founded.
1949 - East Germany establishes formal diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
1951 - The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaqat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1963 - Ludwig Erhard becomes the Chancellor of West Germany.
1964 - Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister for the first time.
1979 - Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit resigns.
1992 - Indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala is named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1993 - Lieutenant General Omar Hassan Al Bashir becomes President of Sudan after military ruler for four years.
1994 - Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s government wins a thin majority in Germany’s elections.
1996 - Fans try to squeeze into a World Cup qualifying soccer match in Guatemala City, killing 78 people in the crush.
2002 - US President George W. Bush signs a congressional resolution authorising war against Iraq.
2003 - UN Security Council votes unanimously to adopt a resolution on post-war Iraq.
2005 - Spaniard Fernando Alonso wins the Chinese Grand Prix to hand Renault their first Formula One constructor’s title.
2006 - Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka ram a truck packed with explosives into a convoy of military buses, killing at least 93 sailors.
2014 - Apple unveils the iPad Air 2, the world’s slimmest tablet.
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