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, 489,048 hours 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
- 1384 –Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
- 1859 –John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
- 1905 –The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
- 1944 –Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker’s first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz’s cartoon.
- 1951 –The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
- 1975 –The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
- 1978 –Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave.
- 1986 –Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
- 1991 –Luby’s massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby’s Cafeteria.
- 1995 –The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
Who were born on October 16?
- 1430 –King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
- 1840 –Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician (d. 1900)
- 1841 –Hirobumi Ito, Japanese politician (d. 1909)
- 1890 –Michael Collins, Irish politician (d. 1922)
- 1922 –Max Bygraves, English singer and songwriter
- 1931 –Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress and humanitarian
- 1956 –John Chavis, American football coach
- 1962 –Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone
- 1963 –Brendan Kibble, Australian musician
- 1969 –Wendy Wilson, American pop singer (Wilson Phillips)
Who died on October 16?
- 1594 –William Allen, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1532)
- 1655 –Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
- 1755 –Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725)
- 1810 –Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)
- 1888 –John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
- 1946 –Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893)
- 1959 –Minor Hall, American jazz musician (b. 1897)
- 1990 –Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American classical pianist (b. 1914)
- 2004 –Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy’s White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
- 2007 –Barbara West, second-to-last living Titanic survivor (b. 1911)
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