Thursday October 16, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from β€œThe Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

is the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are until the end of the year. The day of the week is .

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Mokuyōbi.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Libra is the zodiac 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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by the Numbers

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  • year, months, and days ago
  • months since then
  • is in the nd week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

Queen’s University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States, and Cuba and the USSR, begins.
Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.
In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
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.
Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
The Skye Bridge is opened.

Who were born on ?

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Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
William Burton, American politician (d. 1866)
Maxie Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
George Turner, Australian author (d. 1997)
Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
Gary Kemp, British musician and actor
Bob Mould, American musician
Danny Hesp, Dutch footballer
Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter
Chad Gray, American singer

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