October 16th is the 289th day of the year. There are 76 days left.
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Today's number is 16

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16 = 4 squared and 2 to the fourth or 4**2 and 2**4. Coincidence? I don't think so.
(I know of no other number that is both a**b and b**a where a is unequal to b)
16 is the base for the Hexadecimal numeral system, aka Hex
Counting in Hex runs from 0 to 9 then A,B,C,D,E, and F for 10 through 15
Hex is used a ton in computer science, computers and computing
16 is sulfur
There are 16 ounces in a pound

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Title 16 of the US Code is CONSERVATION

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16 BCE
was the Year of the Consulship of Ahenobarbus and Scipio
Caesar Augustus reorganized the German provinces and made Trier their capital.
(Trier is way cool. It has a ton of Roman ruins and Marx spent a chunk of his childhood there, in the Salmonish second story dwelling in the center of this picture:

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This is, of course, commercially exploited, from fashion

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To Transport

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Elsewhere in 16 BCE,
Roman legate Marcus Lollius was defeated by a Germanic horde. This was/is called "The Lollian Disaster" because the German raiders bagged the legionary standard (the Eagle).

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16 CE
was the Year of the Consulship of Taurus and Libo
A Roman army of 50,000 men commanded by Germanicus won a victory at Idistaviso, defeating the German war chief Arminius and recovering the lost eagles of Varus' legions. (Those were the 3 eagles Varus lost in 9 BCE, not the paltry lone eagle Lollius lost in 16 BCE.)
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On this day in:
1384 -- Jadwiga was crowned King of Poland, although she was a woman.
1841 -- Queen's University was founded in Kingston, Ontario
1843 -- Sir William Rowan Hamilton invented and described quaternions, non-commutative complex numbers
1847 -- Jane Eyre was published
1859 -- John Brown led a raid on Harpers Ferry
1869 -- Girton College, Cambridge, England's first redidential college for women, was founded
1875 -- Brigham Young University was founded, before Lavell Edwards was even born
1916 -- Margaret Sanger opened the US' first family planning clinic
1934 -- Chinese Communists begin the Long March (alternate date)
1940 -- The Warsaw Ghetto was established.
1943 -- Raid on the Rome Ghetto
1946 -- Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders from the Main Nuremberg Trial
1950 -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was published
1964 -- China detonated its first nuke
1968 -- Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
1978 -- Wanda Rutkiewicz was the first European woman to summit Mount Everest.
1984 -- Desmond Tutu got the Nobel Peace Prize.
1995 -- The Million Man March in Washington, D.C.

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Born this day in:

1620 -- Pierre Paul Puget, painter and sculptor
1678 -- Anna Waser, painter
1679 -- Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer and viol player
1729 -- Pierre van Maldere, violinist and composer
1758 -- Noah Webster, lexicographer
1854 -- Oscar Wilde, wit, playwright, poet and novelist
1888 -- Eugene O'Neill, playwright
1898 -- William O. Douglas, jurist
1900 -- Primo Conti, futurist painter
1927 -- Gunter Grass, novelist
1931 -- Charles Colson, evangelical lawyer and criminal, Nixon's hatchet
1938 -- Nico, as in "The Velvet Underground and Nico"
1943 -- Fred Turner, bassist, singer, songwriter, co-founder of Bachman-Turner Overdrive
1945 -- Roger Hawkins, session drummer
1947 -- Bob Weir, singer, songwriter, guitarist
1952 -- Cordell Mosson, bassist, took over for Bootsy Collins
1953 -- Tony Carey, keyboardist
1960 -- Bob Mould, singer, songwriter, guitarist (husker du)
1962 -- Flea, bassist, Chili Pepper
1969 -- Wendy Wilson, singer and songwriter

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Died this day in:

1553 -- Lucas Cranach the Elder, painter
1959 -- George Marshall, general, planner, politician
1972 -- Leo G. Carroll, Topper
1973 -- Gene Krupa, Drummer
1990 -- Art Blakey, drummer, bandleader, messenger
1997 -- James A. Michener, author
2001 -- Etta Jones, singer, and songwriter
2004 -- Pierre Salinger, journalist and politician

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
World Food Day (International)
World Anaesthesia Day (International)
Teachers' Day (Chile)
Boss's Day (United States and Canada) - I shit you not.

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So, for music,
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John Brown

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Jan Dismas Zelenka (Two-Fer)

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Pierre van Maldere

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Nico

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Fred Turner

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Roger Hawkins

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Bob Weir

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Cordell Mosson

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Tony Carey

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Bob Mould

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Flea

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Wendy Wilson

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Gene Krupa

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Art Blakeley

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Etta Jones

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Bonus:
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"The Velvet Underground and Nico"

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Bachmann-Turner Overdrive

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Bob Weir

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photo is public domain by Roland Tanglao

I won't be here when this posts, enjoy and play nice among yourselves