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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1921

  The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the RSFSR.
• 1922

  The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
• 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.

• 1865

  Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic (d. 1946)
• 1897

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

  Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
• 1914

  Raymond Lambert, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1997)
• 1926

  Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
• 1949

  Joe Egan, British musician (Stealers Wheel)
• 1950

  Om Puri, Indian actor
• 1960

  Erin Moran, American actress
• 1970

  Mike Starink, Dutch television presenter and stage actor
• 1987

  Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model

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