On this day — October 16

and Ireland causing major damage and power loss.

killing 49 people.

commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria.

About 837,000 attend.

Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20.

he becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.

a group of Australian journalists, in Portuguese Timor.

from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.