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.
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What Happened On October 16
- 1384 –Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
- 1813 –The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
- 1843 –Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
- 1846 –William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
- 1869 –Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England’s first residential college for women.
- 1869 –The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is “discovered”.
- 1875 –Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
- 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.
- 1916 –In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
- 1939 –World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
- 1946 –Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
- 1949 –The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.
- 1962 –Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States, and Cuba and the USSR, begins.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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