What Day of the Week

October 16, 2022 is the 289^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is domingo.

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Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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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• 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.
• 1859

  John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
• 1940

  Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
• 1949

  Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a “temporary cease-fire”, effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
• 1964

  Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.
• 1968

  United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
• 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.
• 1995

  The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
• 2002

  Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.

• 1751

  Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia (d. 1805)
• 1883

  Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (d. 1973)
• 1888

  Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
• 1917

  Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
• 1921

  MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (d. 2010)
• 1931

  Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress and humanitarian
• 1948

  Hema Malini, Indian Actress
• 1953

  Tony Carey, American musician (Rainbow, Planet P Project)
• 1973

  María Eugenia Larraín, Chilean model, engineer and socialite
• 1986

  Craig Pickering, British sprinter

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