The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
Observed On This Date
Commemoration of a person or event
Fixed Gregorian date, 16 October, every year.
Marks the birthday of Patricia Bays Haroski's own father, for whom she worked as a secretary at State Farm Insurance; she registered the observance with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 1958.
This Week In Medicine History
Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.