About October 16
October 16, 2021 is the 289th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 108 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1906 –The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
- 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.
- 1968 –Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
- 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.
- 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 –Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 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.
- 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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