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 Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Getsuyōbi.

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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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• 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.
• 1854

  Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
• 1945

  Women’s suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
• 1956

  Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is captured by the British Army, signalling the ultimate defeat of the Mau Mau Uprising, and essentially ending the British military campaign.
• 1965

  Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
• 1966

  Aberfan disaster: A slag heap collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
• 1973

  Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
• 1973

  John Paul Getty III’s ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8.
• 1977

  The European Patent Institute is founded.
• 1983

  The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

• 1845

  Will Carleton, American poet (d. 1912)
• 1907

  Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (d. 1985)
• 1924

  Celia Cruz, Cuban singer, Queen of Salsa (d. 2003)
• 1924

  Joyce Randolph, American actress
• 1948

  Allen Vigneron, American Catholic Archbishop of Detroit
• 1972

  Evhen Tsybulenko, Ukrainian professor of international law
• 1976

  Lavinia Miloşovici, Romanian gymnast
• 1976

  Mélanie Turgeon, Canadian alpine skier
• 1983

  Andy Marté, Dominican baseball player
• 1983

  Shelden Williams, American basketball player

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