Talk:October 16

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October 16 Margaret Sanger 1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacked French forces led by Napoleon in the Battle of Leipzig, the largest conflict in the Napoleonic Wars, with over 500,000 troops involved. 1834 – Most of the Palace of Westminster in London was destroyed in a fire caused by the burning of wooden tally sticks. 1916 – Margaret Sanger (pictured) established the United States' first family planning clinic in Brooklyn, New York. 1943 – The Holocaust: The Gestapo conducted a raid on the Roman Ghetto, capturing 1,259 members of the Jewish community, most of whom were sent to Auschwitz. 2013 – In Laos's deadliest air accident, Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashed into the Mekong River, resulting in the deaths of all 49 people aboard. Pedro González de Lara (d. 1130) Angela Lansbury (b. 1925) Linda November (b. 1944) Naomi Osaka (b. 1997) More anniversaries: October 15 October 16 October 17 Archive By email List of days of the year About

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"1993 – Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters." This sentence is hard to comprehend and frankly inaccurate. Strictly speaking, the BNP are not Nazis (who existed solely in Germany until 1945) and I highly doubt that the BNP themselves claim this. Associating Nazis with the BNP is not only NPOV but also terribly UK-centric. The majority of the English-speaking world has no clue who the BNP is, or that they are commonly associated with continental nationalist parties. At the very minimum, the riots should be called "Anti-Nazism" to distinguish the actual mid-century National Socialist party from the modern BNP. Even better phrasing should account for the parts of the BNP platform that catalyzed the riots ("Anti-anti-immigration riot" or something; someone with better first-hand knowledge of the event in question would be able to make something more accurate). I'm changing this to "Anti-Nazism" for the time being, and I hope that someone else can improve it further. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.188.8.27 (talk) 09:21, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]