What Day of the Week

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

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

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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

  Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
• 1834

  Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
• 1875

  Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
• 1940

  Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
• 1970

  In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
• 1978

  Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave.
• 1993

  Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
• 1996

  Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
• 1998

  Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
• 2006

  Hawaii Earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.

• 1726

  Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
• 1948

  Hema Malini, Indian Actress
• 1956

  Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet (d. 1992)
• 1963

  Brendan Kibble, Australian musician
• 1965

  Steve Lamacq, British journalist and disc jockey
• 1965

  Tom Tolbert, American basketball player
• 1968

  Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
• 1970

  Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
• 1973

  David Unsworth, English footballer
• 1976

  Ryan Fitzgerald, Australian footballer and media personality

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