Historical Events for 16th October 2022

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1311 - Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens
1861 - Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
1925 - Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
1967 - WETK TV channel 33 in Burlington, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - The People's Democracy (PD), formed on Oct 9, organise a march of 1,300 students from the Queen's University of Belfast to the City Hall in the centre of the city, Northern Ireland
1990 - US forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf
1995 - Million Man March held in Washington, D.C. (over 830,000 African American men attend)
2013 - 49 people are killed after Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes in the Mekong River, Laos
2018 - Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman denies knowledge of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi according to President Trump
2019 - Netflix reveals its most popular original movie was Sandra Bullock's "Bird Box" and TV series "Stranger Things" for the year

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