What Happened on October 16, 1946

Historical Events

Nuremberg Trials

10 Nazi leaders are hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg war trials, including Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Alfred Jodl

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*Hermann Goering on trial at the Nuremberg Trials. He would later be sentenced to death, but committed suicide the night before his sentence was to be carried out.*

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Famous Birthdays

Suzanne Somers, San Bruno California, actress (3's Company, Step by Step)
Tariq Yunus, Indian actor (Bollywood, Ashanti, Deceivers), born in Karachi, India (d. 1994)

Famous Deaths

Alfred Jodl

Alfred Jodl, German general during World War II (head of the German High Command, signed unconditional Nazi surrender), hanged by Allied forces after the Nuremberg trials at 56

Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s), hanged at 54
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi (SS/SD), hanged at 43
Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi General of Labor, hanged at 51
Granville Bantock, English composer and conductor (Hebridean Symphony), dies at 78