About October 16
October 16, 2024 is the 290th 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.
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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 105 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.
- 1590 –Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.
- 1793 –Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
- 1813 –The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
- 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.
- 1859 –John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
- 1869 –The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is “discovered”.
- 1905 –The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
- 1916 –In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
- 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.
- 1945 –The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
- 1946 –Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
- 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.
- 1995 –The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
- 1995 –The Skye Bridge is opened.
- 1998 –Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
- 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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