What Day of the Week

October 16, 2019 is the 289^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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

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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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• 456

  Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
• 1841

  Queen’s University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• 1859

  John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
• 1934

  Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
• 1939

  World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
• 1940

  Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
• 1951

  The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
• 1964

  The People’s Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
• 1975

  The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government’s annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
• 1978

  Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

• 1535

  Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
• 1795

  William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
• 1804

  Benjamin Russell, American artist (d. 1885)
• 1815

  Francis Lubbock, American politician (d. 1905)
• 1840

  Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician (d. 1900)
• 1923

  Linda Darnell, American film actress (d. 1965)
• 1939

  Joe Dolan, Irish singer (d. 2007)
• 1972

  Darius Kasparaitis, Russian ice hockey player
• 1972

  Kordell Stewart, American football player
• 1980

  Sue Bird, American basketball player

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