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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• 42 BC

  Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi – Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus’s army. Brutus commits suicide.
• 1641

  Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
• 1642

  Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War.
• 1694

  British/American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec from the French.
• 1707

  The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.
• 1739

  War of Jenkins’ Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.
• 1941

  Walt Disney’s animated film Dumbo is released.
• 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.
• 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

  The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szűrös, replacing the communist Hungarian People’s Republic.

• 1503

  Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (d. 1539)
• 1516

  Charlotte de Valois, princess of France (d. 1524)
• 1771

  Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813)
• 1815

  João Maurício Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (d. 1889)
• 1880

  Una O'Connor, Irish actress (d. 1959)
• 1905

  Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
• 1918

  James Daly, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1925

  Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (d. 1994)
• 1966

  Alex Zanardi, Italian race car driver
• 1986

  Jessica Stroup, American actress

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