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, 1,634,342,400 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 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
- 1869 –Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England’s first residential college for women.
- 1906 –The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
- 1916 –In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
- 1946 –Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
- 1964 –Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.
- 1975 –The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government’s annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
- 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.
- 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?
- 1663 –Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)
- 1917 –Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
- 1931 –Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress and humanitarian
- 1938 –Nico, German musician, fashion model and actress (d. 1988)
- 1959 –Brian Harper, American baseball player
- 1959 –Marc Collins-Rector, American businessman and sex offender
- 1962 –Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone
- 1973 –David Unsworth, English footballer
- 1974 –Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
- 1981 –Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress
Who died on October 16?
- 1655 –Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
- 1951 –Liaqat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)
- 1956 –Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (b. 1873)
- 1959 –Minor Hall, American jazz musician (b. 1897)
- 1962 –Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (b. 1884)
- 1964 –Patsy Callighen, Canadian Hockey Player (b. 1906)
- 1978 –Dan Dailey, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1989 –Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)
- 2006 –John Murra, Ukrainian-American anthropologist (b. 1916)
- 2010 –Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915)
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