📅 October 16 in the Time Tunnel
What happened on October 16? Travel back in time and find out — then test yourself with the quiz.
🎉 Special days
- 🥗 World Food Day
⏳ On this day in history
- 1843Mathematician William Rowan Hamilton invented quaternions, a new kind of number
- 1846Ether anesthesia was shown in public for the first time during an operation in Boston
- 1923Walt Disney and his brother Roy founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio
- 2002The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt’s great new library, opened
🎂 Born on October 16
- 📖 Noah Webster (1758) — creator of the American dictionary
- 🖋️ Oscar Wilde (1854) — playwright and poet
See everyone born on October 16 →
October 16 quiz
In what year? 🧮 Mathematician William Rowan Hamilton invented quaternions, a new kind of number
In what year? 💉 Ether anesthesia was shown in public for the first time during an operation in Boston
In what year? 🐭 Walt Disney and his brother Roy founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio
Which famous person was born on October 16?