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 Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.

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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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• 1834

  Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
• 1859

  John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
• 1916

  In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
• 1939

  World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
• 1962

  Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States, and Cuba and the USSR, begins.
• 1964

  Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.
• 1975

  Rahima Banu, a two-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
• 1975

  The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
• 1995

  The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
• 1995

  The Skye Bridge is opened.

• 1710

  Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
• 1840

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

  Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby commentator (d. 2010)
• 1923

  Linda Darnell, American film actress (d. 1965)
• 1925

  Angela Lansbury, English-born actress
• 1959

  Gary Kemp, British musician and actor
• 1961

  Marc Levy, French novelist
• 1969

  Danny Hesp, Dutch footballer
• 1982

  Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian Film Actor
• 1991

  John and Edward Grimes, Irish singers

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