About October 16
October 16, 2020 is the 290th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 119 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.
- 1781 –George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1834 –Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
- 1859 –John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
- 1869 –The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is “discovered”.
- 1939 –World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
- 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.
- 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 –United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
- 1973 –Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1975 –The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
- 1978 –Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave.
- 1978 –Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1998 –Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
- 2002 –Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
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