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.
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.