What Day of the Week

October 18, 2019 was the 291^st day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 74 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kin'yōbi.

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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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• 1648

  Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
• 1775

  African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
• 1797

  Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
• 1860

  The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
• 1898

  United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
• 1914

  The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
• 1929

  The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered “Persons” under Canadian law.
• 1945

  A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against then president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
• 1964

  The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.
• 1977

  German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.

• 1668

  John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)
• 1777

  Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (d. 1811)
• 1870

  Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Japanese scholar (d. 1966)
• 1915

  Victor Sen Yung, American actor (d. 1980)
• 1919

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canadian politician (d. 2000)
• 1924

  Buddy MacMaster, Canadian musician
• 1951

  Terry McMillan, American author
• 1953

  Loes Luca, Dutch actress, singer and comedian
• 1964

  Charles Stross, British author
• 1967

  Eric Stuart, American voice actor and singer

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