Holidays October 16, 2024: name days, signs

Today, October 16, is World Healthy Eating Day. There are 76 days until the New Year.

October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days left until the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• World Healthy Eating Day.

• World Spine Day.

• World Food Day.

• International Anesthesiologist Day.

• Allergist Day.

• World Bread Day.

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What events happened on October 16

• 1596 – Beresteysky Church Council begins.

• 1793 – Marie Antoinette “Widow Capet”, Queen of France, wife of Louis XVI and mother of Louis XVII, is assassinated.

• 1813 – the “Battle of the Nations” began (lasted until October 19), in which the troops of the French Empire, the Confederation of the Rhine, the Duchy of Warsaw, the Austrian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, the Russian Empire and Sweden participated.

• 1843 – Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton discovers a formula for multiplying quaternions.

• 1946 – according to the judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal, the Nazi criminals (Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl and Arthur Seyss Inquart) were executed in Nuremberg prison.

• 1964 – The People’s Republic of China conducts its first nuclear weapon test.

• 1978 – John Paul II (before enthronement – Karol Józef Wojtyła) became the 264th Pope and the first non-Italian on the papal throne since 1523, one of the youngest pontiffs in history and the first pope of Slavic origin .

• 1987 – The Lion Society was created in Lviv.

• 2005 – The FIDE World Chess Championship ends in San Luis (Argentina).

Who was born on October 16

• 1910 – Alexander Lutsky, military leader of the UPA, commander of the UNS (07.1943 – 11.1943), UPA-West (11.1943 – 01.26.1944), UPA-West-Carpathians (08.1944 – 09.1944).

• 1918 – Alexander Pidsukha, Ukrainian poet.

What is the name of the days: Alexey, Georgy, Evgeny, Ivan, Leonty.

Folk signs and traditions for October 16

• Rain and clouds mean cold weather.

• The leaves do not fall from the trees – frosts should not be expected yet.

• The birds are screaming and restless – it will be hotter.

• Calm and sunny – winter will come late.

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