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 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 3, 2020 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 26,713,440 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.
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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 119 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 2,856 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.
- 1875 –Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
- 1923 –The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
- 1940 –Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
- 1946 –Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
- 1978 –Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 1984 –Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1986 –Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
Who were born on October 16?
- 1854 –Karl Kautsky, Czech-born German theoretician (d. 1938)
- 1883 –Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (d. 1973)
- 1919 –Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
- 1928 –Mary Daly, American feminist philosopher and theologian (d. 2010)
- 1938 –Carl Gunter Jr, American state legislator (d. 1999)
- 1946 –Suzanne Somers, American actress
- 1972 –Tomas Lindberg, Swedish musician (At the Gates)
- 1981 –Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress
- 1986 –Inna, Romanian singer
- 1988 –Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer
Who died on October 16?
- 1553 –Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
- 1649 –Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
- 1781 –Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English naval officer (b. 1705)
- 1810 –Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)
- 1946 –Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal (b. 1877)
- 1968 –Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914)
- 1972 –Hale Boggs, US Congressman from Louisiana (b. 1914)
- 1983 –Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (b. 1895)
- 2005 –Eugene “Porky” Lee, American child actor (b. 1933)
- 2006 –Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
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