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

  • 1780 –
    Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
  • 1781 –
    George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
  • 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.
  • 1869 –
    The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is “discovered”.
  • 1916 –
    In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
  • 1923 –
    The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
  • 1939 –
    World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
  • 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.
  • 1962 –
    Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States, and Cuba and the USSR, begins.
  • 1964 –
    The People’s Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
  • 1968 –
    Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
  • 1973 –
    Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • 1975 –
    Rahima Banu, a two-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
  • 1984 –
    The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.
  • 1986 –
    Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
  • 1991 –
    Luby’s massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby’s Cafeteria.
  • 1995 –
    The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
  • 1996 –
    Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.

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