What day of the week was October 16, 1978?

The day of the week October 16th, 1978 fell on was a Monday.

Ethan Luck the American guitarist and drummer (The O.C. Supertones, Demon Hunter, and Relient K) was born on 16 October in 1978.

Dan Dailey the American actor, singer, dancer, and director (b. 1913) died on this day in 1978.

Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave the the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523. Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.