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 Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is sábado.

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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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• 1859

  John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
• 1869

  Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England’s first residential college for women.
• 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.
• 1962

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

  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.
• 1995

  The Skye Bridge is opened.

• 1854

  Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
• 1897

  Louis de Cazenave, French supercentenarian (d. 2008)
• 1923

  Linda Darnell, American film actress (d. 1965)
• 1927

  Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1955

  Ellen Dolan, American actress
• 1962

  Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone
• 1972

  Darius Kasparaitis, Russian ice hockey player
• 1972

  Kordell Stewart, American football player
• 1975

  Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
• 1980

  Jeremy Jackson, American actor

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