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 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 3, 2022 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,665,878,400 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 98 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 3,586 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 16 Historical Events
- 1384 –Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
- 1781 –George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1813 –The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
- 1859 –John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
- 1934 –Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
- 1944 –Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker’s first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz’s cartoon.
- 1949 –Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a “temporary cease-fire”, effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
- 1951 –The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
- 1991 –Luby’s massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby’s Cafeteria.
- 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?
- 1751 –Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia (d. 1805)
- 1841 –Hirobumi Ito, Japanese politician (d. 1909)
- 1863 –Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
- 1916 –George Turner, Australian author (d. 1997)
- 1928 –Mary Daly, American feminist philosopher and theologian (d. 2010)
- 1936 –Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
- 1940 –Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
- 1952 –Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1962 –Flea, Australian-born American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- 1962 –Nico Lazaridis, German footballer
Who died on October 16?
- 1621 –Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562)
- 1793 –John Hunter, Scottish doctor and philosopher (b. 1728)
- 1937 –Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
- 1974 –Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Carnatic musician (b. 1895)
- 1978 –Dan Dailey, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1982 –Mario Del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915)
- 1991 –Ole Beich, Guns n Roses bass player (b.1955)
- 1996 –Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)
- 1998 –Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
- 2010 –Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915)
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