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 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 3, 2021 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 27,239,040 minutes 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 108 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 3,221 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 16 Historical Events
- 1781 –George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1793 –Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
- 1843 –Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
- 1940 –Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
- 1946 –Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
- 1968 –United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
- 1970 –In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
- 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.
- 2006 –Hawaii Earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
Who were born on October 16?
- 1710 –Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
- 1884 –Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
- 1931 –Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress and humanitarian
- 1965 –Tom Tolbert, American basketball player
- 1970 –Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
- 1972 –Adrianne Frost, American comedian and author
- 1972 –Kordell Stewart, American football player
- 1977 –John Mayer, American musician
- 1980 –Sue Bird, American basketball player
- 1986 –Craig Pickering, British sprinter
Who died on October 16?
- 1750 –Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (b. 1687)
- 1793 –Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755)
- 1893 –Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)
- 1946 –Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal (b. 1877)
- 1951 –Liaqat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)
- 1952 –Ghulam Bhik Nairang, Indian/Pakistani Muslim leader and poet (b. 1876)
- 1975 –Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor (b. 1885)
- 2000 –Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934)
- 2002 –Dawson family, American murder victims
- 2006 –Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru (b. 1936)
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