What Day of the Week

October 19, 2020 is the 293^rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 73 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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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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• 202 BC

  Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.
• 1216

  King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
• 1781

  At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis’ sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.
• 1900

  Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission (Planck’s law).
• 1904

  Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
• 1943

  Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
• 1954

  First ascent of Cho Oyu.
• 1973

  President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
• 1976

  Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
• 1986

  Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev 134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.

• 1903

  Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (d. 1971)
• 1918

  Russel Kirk, American author and political theorist (d. 1994)
• 1926

  Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and songwriter (d. 2009)
• 1945

  John Lithgow, American actor
• 1956

  Bruce Weber, American basketball coach
• 1973

  Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978

  Henri Sorvali, Finnish musician
• 1982

  Gonzalo Pineda, Mexican footballer
• 1984

  Kaio de Almeida, Brazilian swimmer
• 1993

  Abby Sunderland, American sailor

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