What Day of the Week

October 15, 2019 is the 288^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 77 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.

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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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• 1793

  Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.
• 1863

  American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
• 1878

  The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
• 1904

  The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
• 1910

  Airship America launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
• 1939

  The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated.
• 1956

  Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.
• 1970

  Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.
• 1979

  Black Monday in Malta. The Building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of the Malta Labour Party.
• 2003

  China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.

• 1840

  Honoré Mercier, politician and premier of Quebec (d. 1894)
• 1916

  Al Killian, American jazz trumpet player and occasional bandleader (d. 2007)
• 1940

  Peter Doherty, Australian immunologist, Nobel laureate
• 1945

  Jim Palmer, American baseball player
• 1972

  Fred Hoiberg, American basketball player
• 1975

  Glen Little, English footballer
• 1977

  Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1978

  Devon Gummersall, American actor
• 1979

  Blue Adams, American Football Player
• 1987

  Chantal Strand, Canadian actress, singer and voice actress

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