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
- 456 –Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1384 –Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
- 1834 –Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
- 1841 –Queen’s University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
- 1843 –Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
- 1846 –William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1951 –The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
- 1962 –Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States, and Cuba and the USSR, begins.
- 1964 –Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.
- 1968 –Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
- 1978 –Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave.
- 1984 –Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 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 Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
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