What Day of the Week

October 16, 2021 was the 289^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 76 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is samedi.

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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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• 1793

  Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
• 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.
• 1940

  Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
• 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.
• 1962

  Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States, and Cuba and the USSR, begins.
• 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

  Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
• 1978

  Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave.
• 1995

  The Skye Bridge is opened.

• 1855

  Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
• 1863

  Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
• 1922

  Max Bygraves, English singer and songwriter
• 1934

  Peter Ashdown, British racing driver
• 1938

  Nico, German musician, fashion model and actress (d. 1988)
• 1954

  Serafino Ghizzoni, Italian rugby player
• 1972

  Kordell Stewart, American football player
• 1981

  Anthony Reyes, American baseball player
• 1982

  Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian Film Actor
• 1984

  Melissa Lauren, French pornographic actress

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