What Day of the Week

October 18, 2021 is the 291^st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 74 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

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

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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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• 1016

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

  Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV.
• 1775

  African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
• 1775

  American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine) prompts the Continental Congress to establish the Continental Navy.
• 1912

  First Balkan War: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration “To the Serbian People”, as Serbia joins the war.
• 1944

  Soviet Union begins liberation of Czechoslovakia.
• 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.
• 1967

  The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
• 1991

  The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
• 2003

  Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.

• 1894

  Tibor Déry, Hungarian author (d. 1977)
• 1934

  Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist
• 1935

  Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1938

  Dawn Wells, American actress
• 1945

  Huell Howser, American television personality
• 1947

  Laura Nyro, American singer and songwriter (d. 1997)
• 1949

  George Hendrick, American baseball player
• 1958

  Kjell Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1962

  Vincent Spano, American actor
• 1984

  Lindsey Vonn, American alpine ski racer

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