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 French then this day of the week in French is mardi.

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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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• 1707

  Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown.
• 1777

  American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
• 1790

  Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
• 1859

  Spain declares war on Morocco.
• 1878

  The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
• 1895

  In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
• 1928

  Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
• 1966

  The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
• 1981

  The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
• 2005

  Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.

• 1821

  Collis Potter Huntington, American railroad executive (d. 1900)
• 1881

  Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• 1923

  Bert Trautmann, German former footballer
• 1939

  Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers, French writer and poet
• 1945

  Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor and television host
• 1961

  Robert Torti, American actor
• 1963

  Brian Boitano, American figure skater
• 1967

  Ron Tugnutt, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986

  Kara Lang, Canadian footballer
• 1988

  Matt Evans, Filipino actor

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