What Day of the Week

October 23, 2019 is the 296^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 69 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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

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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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• 1295

  The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris.
• 1861

  U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
• 1941

  World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow.
• 1942

  World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: – At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begins a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
• 1944

  World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf – The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
• 1958

  The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou.
• 1989

  Phillips Disaster in Pasadena, Texas kills 23 and injures 314.
• 1993

  Shankill Road bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in the Shankill area of Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians.
• 2001

  Apple announces the iPod.
• 2002

  Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.

• 1766

  Emmanuel, Marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (d. 1847)
• 1790

  Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman (d. 1860)
• 1923

  Aslam Farrukhi, Pakistani scholar and poet
• 1935

  Juan “Chi-Chi” Rodríguez, Puerto Rican golfer
• 1957

  Martin Luther King III, American human rights advocate
• 1958

  Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, professor, author
• 1970

  Grant Imahara, American TV Mythbuster
• 1986

  Briana Evigan, American actress
• 1987

  Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer (Play)
• 1990

  Stan Walker, Australian/New Zealand recording artist and actor.

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