What are the important events that happened on October 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 16: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 16 is the 289th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 3, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,760,572,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaoctacontaenneagon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 124 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,682 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 16 Historical Events
- 456 –Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1813 –The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
- 1859 –John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
- 1869 –Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England’s first residential college for women.
- 1916 –In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
- 1940 –Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
- 1964 –The People’s Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
- 1968 –Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
- 1970 –In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
- 1995 –The Skye Bridge is opened.
Who were born on October 16?
- 1917 –Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
- 1931 –Charles Colson, American Watergate figure
- 1948 –Hema Malini, Indian Actress
- 1948 –Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
- 1953 –Tony Carey, American musician (Rainbow, Planet P Project)
- 1970 –Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
- 1972 –Tomas Lindberg, Swedish musician (At the Gates)
- 1979 –Erin Brown, American actress, model, filmmaker, and musician
- 1980 –Jeremy Jackson, American actor
- 1990 –Yohanna, Icelandic singer
Who died on October 16?
- 1755 –Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725)
- 1796 –Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
- 1877 –Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
- 1909 –Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
- 1946 –Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890)
- 1946 –Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal (b. 1894)
- 1946 –Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Hans Frank, German war criminal (b. 1900)
- 1968 –Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914)
- 1989 –Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)
- 1991 –Ole Beich, Guns n Roses bass player (b.1955)
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