What Day of the Week

October 11, 2019 is the 284^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 81 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

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Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 1582

  Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1634

  The Burchardi flood – “the second Grote Mandrenke” killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
• 1833

  A big demonstration at the gates of the legislature of Buenos Aires forces the ousting of governor Juan Ramón Balcarce and his replacement with Juan José Viamonte.
• 1862

  American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.
• 1906

  San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
• 1910

  Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1929

  JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
• 1941

  Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
• 1957

  Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik I’s booster rocket’s orbit.
• 1986

  Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.

• 1872

  Harlan Fiske Stone, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946)
• 1881

  Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist (d. 1973)
• 1884

  Sig Ruman, German-American actor (d. 1967)
• 1928

  Alfonso de Portago, Spanish race car driver (d. 1957)
• 1942

  Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor
• 1963

  Ronny Rosenthal, Israeli footballer
• 1967

  Tazz, American professional wrestler and commentator
• 1968

  Brett Salisbury, American football player and author
• 1973

  Niki Xanthou, Greek long jumper
• 1974

  Terje Haakonsen, Norwegian snowboarder

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