What day of the week was October 16, 1962?

The day of the week October 16th, 1962 fell on was a Tuesday.

Manute Bol the Sudanese-American basketball player (d. 2010) was born on 16 October in 1962. As was Ken Chinn the Canadian singer-songwriter (SNFU and Slaveco.) , Dmitri Hvorostovsky the Russian opera singer , Nico Lazaridis the German footballer .

Gaston Bachelard the French poet and philosopher (b. 1884) died on this day in 1962.

The Cuban missile crisis between the United States the Cuba, and the Soviet Union begins when US President John F. Kennedy is shown photographs of missile sites in Cuba.