Wednesday October 16, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

was the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There were until the end of the year. The day of the week was .

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

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, month, and days ago
  • month since then
  • is in the nd week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is a leap year

Historical Event(s)

John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a “temporary cease-fire”, effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States, and Cuba and the USSR, begins.
In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
Hawaii Earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.

Who were born on ?

Paul Hamilton, American politician (d. 1816)
Isaac Murphy, American politician (d. 1882)
William Pitt Fessenden, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury (1864–65) (d. 1869)
Mohammed Zahir Shah, Shah of Afghanistan (d. 2007)
Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
Boogie Mosson, American musician (P Funk)
Erin Brown, American actress, model, filmmaker, and musician
Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
Gregory Sedoc, Dutch athlete
Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer

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