October 16 in history: • 1384 – Jadwiga (pictured) was officially crowned as "King of Poland" instead of "Queen" to reflect the fact that she was a sovereign in her own right. → go there • 1875 – Brigham Young University was founded in Provo, Utah, United States. → go there • 1926 – Háry János, a Hungarian folk opera by Zoltán Kodály, was premiered at the Royal Hungarian Opera House in Budapest. → go there • 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. → go there • 2017 – The Maltese journalist and anti-corruption activist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in a car bomb attack in Bidnija. → go there Born 1854: Oscar Wilde Wiki link Born 1959: Tessa Munt Wiki link Died 2000: Mel Carnahan Wiki link Died 2024: Liam Payne Wiki link Pictured: Háry János poster.