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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• 1813

  The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
• 1846

  William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
• 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.
• 1949

  Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a “temporary cease-fire”, effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
• 1949

  The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.
• 1968

  Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
• 1975

  Rahima Banu, a two-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
• 1975

  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.
• 1998

  Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.

• 1663

  Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)
• 1819

  Austin F. Pike, American politician (d. 1886)
• 1900

  Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-born British writer and illustrator (d. 1979)
• 1922

  Leon Sullivan, American civil rights leader and pastor (d. 2001)
• 1923

  Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (d. 1980)
• 1938

  Carl Gunter Jr, American state legislator (d. 1999)
• 1953

  Tony Carey, American musician (Rainbow, Planet P Project)
• 1969

  Danny Hesp, Dutch footballer
• 1979

  Erin Brown, American actress, model, filmmaker, and musician
• 1992

  Bryce Harper, American baseball player

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