About October 16
October 16, 2025 is the 289th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Libra is the sun 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 124 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 16
- 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.
- 1843 –Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
- 1859 –John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
- 1869 –Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England’s first residential college for women.
- 1882 –The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
- 1905 –The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
- 1940 –Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
- 1944 –Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker’s first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz’s cartoon.
- 1946 –Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
- 1962 –Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States, and Cuba and the USSR, begins.
- 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.
- 1978 –Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave.
- 1984 –Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1984 –The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.
- 1991 –Luby’s massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby’s Cafeteria.
- 1993 –Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
- 1995 –The Skye Bridge is opened.
- 2006 –Hawaii Earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
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