About October 16
October 16, 2023 is the 289th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 117 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.
- 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.
- 1781 –George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1793 –Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
- 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.
- 1882 –The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
- 1905 –The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
- 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.
- 1944 –Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker’s first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz’s cartoon.
- 1949 –Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a “temporary cease-fire”, effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
- 1968 –Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
- 1970 –In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
- 1973 –Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 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.
- 1995 –The Skye Bridge is opened.
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