What Day of the Week

October 4, 2019 is the 277^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

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

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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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• 1535

  The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
• 1636

  The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
• 1779

  The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
• 1830

  Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.
• 1876

  Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
• 1940

  Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
• 1960

  Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston’s Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board.
• 1965

  Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.
• 1992

  El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
• 2010

  The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severly contaminated.

• 1570

  Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1637)
• 1858

  Michael I. Pupin, Serbian-born telephone pioneer (d. 1935)
• 1903

  Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician, historian and genealogist (d. 1993)
• 1903

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner, German military officer and senior Nazi (d. 1946)
• 1931

  Sir Terence Conran, English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer
• 1941

  Roy Blount, Jr., American writer
• 1943

  H. Rap Brown, American civil rights activist
• 1947

  Julien Clerc, French singer
• 1963

  Koji Ishikawa, Japanese children’s author
• 1989

  Stacey Solomon, English singer

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