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 290^th 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, 1,729,036,800 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 ‘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.

October 16 Historical Events

• 1384 –
  Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
• 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.
• 1905 –
  The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
• 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.
• 1949 –
  The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.
• 1964 –
  The People’s Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
• 1968 –
  United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
• 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.
• 1984 –
  The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.

Who were born on October 16?

• 1483 –
  Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
• 1819 –
  Austin F. Pike, American politician (d. 1886)
• 1854 –
  Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
• 1861 –
  J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
• 1886 –
  David Ben-Gurion, Israeli statesman (d. 1973)
• 1931 –
  Charles Colson, American Watergate figure
• 1958 –
  Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer
• 1965 –
  Tom Tolbert, American basketball player
• 1982 –
  Cristian Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
• 1985 –
  Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer

Who died on October 16?

• 1621 –
  Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562)
• 1628 –
  François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
• 1793 –
  Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755)
• 1796 –
  Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
• 1810 –
  Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)
• 1822 –
  Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian ballet dancer (b. 1724)
• 1979 –
  Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)
• 1996 –
  Eric Malpass, English novelist (b. 1910)
• 2005 –
  Eugene “Porky” Lee, American child actor (b. 1933)
• 2006 –
  Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)