What Day of the Week

October 19, 2022 is the 292^nd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 73 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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

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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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• 202 BC

  Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.
• 1812

  Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
• 1864

  St. Albans Raid – Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
• 1900

  Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission (Planck’s law).
• 1943

  Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
• 1944

  United States forces land in the Philippines.
• 1976

  Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
• 2004

  Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption.
• 2005

  Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
• 2005

  Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

• 1610

  James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (d. 1688)
• 1784

  James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Romantic critic, essayist, and poet (d. 1859)
• 1862

  Auguste Lumière, French inventor (d. 1954)
• 1900

  Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990)
• 1918

  Russel Kirk, American author and political theorist (d. 1994)
• 1953

  Lionel Hollins, American basketball player and coach
• 1963

  Prince Laurent of Belgium
• 1966

  Sinitta, American singer
• 1970

  Chris Kattan, American comedian and actor
• 1978

  James Roberts, British Ice Hockey Player

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