What Day of the Week

October 14, 2019 is the 287^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is lundi.

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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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• 1322

  Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland’s independence.
• 1656

  Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
• 1805

  Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria.
• 1910

  The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
• 1913

  Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom’s worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners.
• 1926

  The children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
• 1943

  The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany.
• 1944

  Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head-of-government.
• 1949

  Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong, China.
• 1979

  The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands “an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people”, and draws 200,000 people.

• 1904

  Christian Pineau, French World War II resistance fighter (d. 1995)
• 1929

  Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer (d. 2007)
• 1941

  Art Shamsky, American baseball player
• 1953

  Greg Evigan, American actor
• 1973

  Sergio Pinheiro, Portuguese Folk Singer
• 1974

  Joseph Utsler, American musician
• 1976

  Ben Pridmore, World Memory Champion
• 1977

  Barry Ditewig, Dutch football goalkeeper
• 1983

  Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
• 1990

  Alexandra Krosney, American actress

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