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
- 456 –Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1780 –Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
- 1813 –The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
- 1869 –Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England’s first residential college for women.
- 1875 –Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
- 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.
- 1934 –Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
- 1939 –World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
- 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.
- 1949 –Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a “temporary cease-fire”, effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
- 1949 –The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.
- 1951 –The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
- 1964 –The People’s Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1986 –Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
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