What Day of the Week

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

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

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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.
• 1875

  Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
• 1916

  In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
• 1968

  Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
• 1973

  Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 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.
• 1978

  Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
• 1986

  Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
• 1995

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

• 1483

  Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
• 1883

  Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (d. 1973)
• 1944

  Kaizer Motaung, Southafrican footballer and footballmanager
• 1953

  Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer
• 1959

  Marc Collins-Rector, American businessman and sex offender
• 1969

  Terri J. Vaughn, American actress
• 1975

  Kellie Martin, American actress
• 1980

  Jeremy Jackson, American actor
• 1982

  Pippa Black, Australian actress
• 1982

  Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian Film Actor

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