What Day of the Week

October 22, 2019 is the 295^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 70 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kayōbi.

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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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• 1383

  The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
• 1633

  Battle of southern Fujian sea: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
• 1859

  Spain declares war on Morocco.
• 1866

  A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19.
• 1879

  Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
• 1910

  Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
• 1928

  Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
• 1934

  In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
• 1962

  Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval “quarantine” of the Communist nation.
• 1972

  Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.

• 1701

  Maria Amalia of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1756)
• 1870

  Alfred Douglas, English partner of Oscar Wilde (d. 1945)
• 1913

  Robert Capa, American war photographer (born in Hungary) (d. 1954)
• 1933

  Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer (d. 2007)
• 1937

  Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (d. 1982)
• 1938

  Timos Perlegas, Greek actor (d. 1993)
• 1969

  Helmut Lotti, Belgian singer
• 1973

  Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
• 1975

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson, American actor
• 1978

  Owais Shah, English cricketer

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