If you mean what day of the week was it, it was a Saturday.
16 of oct 1952 was a Thursday.
Oct 16, 1555 fell on a Sunday .
Saturday
It was a Tuesday.
It was a Sunday.
It was a Saturday.
16 August 1948 was a Monday.
September 16, 1948 was a Thursday.
Oct 16, 1964 was a Friday.
October 16 1967 was a Monday.
October 16, 1948 was a Saturday.
From a perpetual US calendar: July 16, 1948 was on Friday.