What day of the week was October 16, 1975?

The day of the week October 16th, 1975 fell on was a Thursday.

Mahmood Al Zarooni the Emirati horse rider and trainer was born on 16 October in 1975. As was Ernesto Noel Aquino the Honduran footballer , Brynjar Gunnarsson the Icelandic footballer , Jacques Kallis the South African cricketer , Kellie Martin the American actress .

Vittorio Gui the Italian conductor and composer (b. 1885) died on this day in 1975. As did Don Barclay the American actor (b. 1892) .

The Balibo Five the a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops. Rahima Banu the a two-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox. The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority the vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government's annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.