What Day of the Week

October 21, 2019 is the 294^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 71 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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• 1096

  People’s Crusade: The Turkish army annihilates the People’s Army of the West.
• 1520

  João Álvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, bestowing them their original name of “Islands of the 11,000 Virgins”.
• 1600

  Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate that in effect rules Japan until the mid-nineteenth century.
• 1861

  American Civil War: Battle of Ball’s Bluff – Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting.
• 1921

  President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.
• 1959

  In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens to the public.
• 1966

  Aberfan disaster: A slag heap collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
• 1967

  Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, D.C. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility. Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.
• 1969

  A coup d'état in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power.
• 1971

  A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland.

• 1894

  Edogawa Rampo, Japanese author and critic (d. 1965)
• 1895

  Edna Purviance, American actress (d. 1958)
• 1926

  Leonard Rossiter, English Comedian/Actor (d. 1984)
• 1931

  Vivian Pickles, English actress
• 1946

  Jim Hill, American sportscaster
• 1948

  Allen Vigneron, American Catholic Archbishop of Detroit
• 1949

  Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1971)
• 1967

  Paul Ince, English footballer
• 1983

  Zack Greinke, American baseball player
• 1984

  Marvin Mitchell, American football player

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