• Time Zone: GMT-04:00
• Time Zone ID: America/New_York
• Day numbers: 290
• Week number: 42
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times for Oct 16th 2024
• Sunrise time: 07:43 am
• Sunset time: 06:53 pm
• Day length: 11h 09m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase for Oct 16th 2024
• Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
• Illumination: 99%
• Moon Age: 14.16 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
Holidays and National Days for October 16th 2024
October 16 in History
1555
The Protestant martyrs Bishop Hugh Latimer and Bishop Nicholas Ridley are burned at the stake for heresy in England.
1701
Yale University is founded as The Collegiate School of Killingworth, Connecticut by Congregationalists who consider Harvard too liberal.
1793
Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine during the French Revolution.
1846
Ether is first administered in public at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston by Dr. William Thomas Green Morton during an operation performed by Dr. John Collins Warren.
1859
Abolitionist John Brown, with 21 men, seizes the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry, Va. U.S. Marines capture the raiders, killing several. John Brown is later hanged in Virginia for treason.
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