What Day of the Week

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

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

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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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• 1009

  The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church’s foundations down to bedrock.
• 1016

  The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
• 1210

  Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV.
• 1356

  Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
• 1748

  Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
• 1851

  Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
• 1945

  The USSR’s nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• 1954

  Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
• 1991

  The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
• 2011

  Gilad Shalit is released.

• 1706

  Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (d. 1785)
• 1897

  Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (d. 1980)
• 1902

  Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
• 1931

  Ien Dales, Dutch politician and mayor (d. 1994)
• 1947

  Paul Chuckle, British comedian
• 1949

  Gary Richrath, American musician (REO Speedwagon)
• 1950

  Om Puri, Indian actor
• 1956

  Jim Talent, American politician
• 1961

  Rick Moody, American author
• 1969

  Volker Neumüller, German music talent manager

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