What Day of the Week

October 17, 2019 is the 290^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 75 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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

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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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• 1091

  London Tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
• 1771

  Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15.
• 1814

  London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine.
• 1907

  Guglielmo Marconi’s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
• 1941

  For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
• 1961

  Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Prefecture of Police.
• 1966

  A fire at a building in New York, New York kills 12 firefighters, the New York City Fire Department’s deadliest day until the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• 1966

  Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
• 1973

  OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria.
• 1994

  Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.

• 1865

  James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (d. 1950)
• 1914

  Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (d. 1996)
• 1934

  Rico Rodriguez, ska and reggae trombonist
• 1946

  Drusilla Modjeska, Australian writer and editor
• 1951

  Roger Pontare, Swedish singer
• 1954

  Carlos Buhler, American high altitude mountaineer
• 1957

  Steve McMichael, American football player
• 1967

  René Dif, Danish musician (Aqua)
• 1972

  Eminem, American rapper
• 1980

  Alessandro Piccolo, Italian racing driver

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