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 290th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 3, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,817,280 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 ‘dihectaenneacontagon’ day.
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 105 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 4,317 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.
- 1590 –Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.
- 1793 –The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
- 1841 –Queen’s University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
- 1905 –The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
- 1923 –The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
- 1951 –The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
- 1962 –Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States, and Cuba and the USSR, begins.
- 1964 –The People’s Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
- 2002 –Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
Who were born on October 16?
- 1752 –Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (d. 1827)
- 1754 –Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804–07) (d. 1844)
- 1914 –Mohammed Zahir Shah, Shah of Afghanistan (d. 2007)
- 1923 –Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby commentator (d. 2010)
- 1923 –Linda Darnell, American film actress (d. 1965)
- 1940 –Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
- 1956 –John Chavis, American football coach
- 1959 –Brian Harper, American baseball player
- 1969 –Terri J. Vaughn, American actress
- 1988 –Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer
Who died on October 16?
- 1781 –Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English naval officer (b. 1705)
- 1946 –Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Julius Streicher, German propagandist (b. 1887)
- 1968 –Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914)
- 1974 –Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Carnatic musician (b. 1895)
- 1981 –Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (b. 1915)
- 1992 –Shirley Booth, American actress (b. 1898)
- 1997 –James Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
- 2005 –David Reilly, American singer (God Lives Underwater) (b. 1971)
- 2010 –Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915)
- 2010 –Eyedea, American rapper (Eyedea & Abilities) (b. 1981)
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