Also on This Day: October 16

Also on this day...
Feast of St. Hedwig
Feast of St. Gerard Majella - Patron of Expectant Mothers

Learn a Word Day
National Dictionary Day - Noah Webster's birthday is today
World Food Day - honors the date of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN in 1945
National Multicultural Diversity Day - educators celebrate NMDD to "increase awareness of the tremendous need to celebrate our diversity collectively"

Jadwiga was crowned "King" of Poland, in 1384, despite being a woman.

Edward Ardizzone was born in 1900, and Sugar Pie DeSanto, singer, was born in 1935.