What Day of the Week

October 24, 2019 is the 297^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 68 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.

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Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Scorpio 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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• 1147

  After a siege of 4 months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.
• 1861

  The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
• 1911

  Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
• 1917

  Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat by the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany on the Austro-Italian front of World War I (lasts until 19 November - also called Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo).
• 1929

  “Black Thursday” stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
• 1945

  Founding of the United Nations
• 1946

  A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
• 1947

  Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
• 1949

  The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
• 2003

  Concorde makes its last commercial flight.

• 1378

  David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (d. 1402)
• 1854

  Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (d. 1907)
• 1932

  Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
• 1933

  Reginald “Reggie” Kray, British gangster and murderer (d. 2000)
• 1945

  Alan Titus, American baritone
• 1954

  Mike Rounds, American politician, current governor of South Dakota
• 1957

  John Kassir, American actor and comedian
• 1957

  Ron Gardenhire, German-born American baseball manager
• 1974

  Corey Dillon, American football player
• 1984

  Kaela Kimura, Japanese model and singer

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