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
- 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.
- 1780 –Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
- 1793 –The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
- 1834 –Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
- 1882 –The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
- 1905 –The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
- 1949 –The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.
- 1978 –Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave.
- 1978 –Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 1998 –Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
Who were born on October 16?
- 1751 –Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia (d. 1805)
- 1841 –Hirobumi Ito, Japanese politician (d. 1909)
- 1905 –Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer (d. 1990)
- 1923 –Linda Darnell, American film actress (d. 1965)
- 1927 –Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1938 –Carl Gunter Jr, American state legislator (d. 1999)
- 1948 –Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
- 1975 –Ernesto Noel Aquino, Honduran footballer
- 1981 –Martin Halle, Danish footballer
- 1982 –Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
Who died on October 16?
- 1628 –François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
- 1908 –Joseph Leycester Lyne (Father Ignatius), a restorer of monastic life in the Church of England (b. 1837)
- 1946 –Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1892)
- 1946 –Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)
- 1946 –Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal (b. 1877)
- 1962 –Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (b. 1884)
- 1998 –Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
- 2006 –Ross Davidson, Scottish actor (b. 1949)
- 2006 –Tommy Johnson, American tubist (b. 1935)
- 2007 –Toše Proeski, Macedonian music star and humanitarian (b. 1981)
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