What Day of the Week

October 16, 2018 was the 289^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 76 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was 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

  The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
• 1813

  The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
• 1906

  The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
• 1916

  In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
• 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.
• 1986

  Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
• 1993

  Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
• 1998

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

• 1806

  William Pitt Fessenden, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury (1864–65) (d. 1869)
• 1861

  J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
• 1876

  Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer, rugby union and soccer player (d. 1913)
• 1953

  Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer
• 1958

  Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer
• 1968

  Randall Batinkoff, American actor
• 1972

  Tomas Lindberg, Swedish musician (At the Gates)
• 1980

  Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
• 1982

  Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
• 1986

  Craig Pickering, British sprinter

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