What Day of the Week

October 30, 2019 is the 303^rd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 62 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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

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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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• 1340

  Battle of Rio Salado.
• 1470

  Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats the Yorkists in battle.
• 1864

  Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at “Last Chance Gulch”.
• 1920

  The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
• 1942

  Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
• 1960

  Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
• 1961

  Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
• 1972

  A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago, Illinois kills 45 and injures 332.
• 1993

  Greysteel massacre: The Ulster Freedom Fighters, a loyalist terrorist group, open fire on a crowded bar in Greysteel, Northern Ireland. Eight civilians are killed and thirteen wounded.
• 2000

  The last Multics machine is shut down.

• 1900

  Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
• 1907

  Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)
• 1908

  Patsy Montana, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
• 1910

  Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian harpsichordist and composer (d. 1994)
• 1927

  Joe Adcock, American baseball player (d. 1999)
• 1935

  Jim Perry, American baseball player
• 1963

  Rebecca Heineman, Computer game programmer
• 1969

  Vagelis Vourtzoumis, Greek basketball player
• 1981

  Ian Snell, American baseball player
• 1989

  Nastia Liukin, Russian/American gymnast

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