What Day of the Week

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

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

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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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• 1636

  The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
• 1795

  Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a “Whiff of Grapeshot”, using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention).
• 1883

  First run of the Orient Express.
• 1941

  Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
• 1957

  Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
• 1957

  Sputnik 1 is launched by the Soviet Union.
• 1967

  Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
• 1974

  Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece.
• 1983

  Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
• 2003

  Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.

• 1862

  Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930)
• 1877

  Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
• 1903

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

  Sir Terence Conran, English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer
• 1943

  H. Rap Brown, American civil rights activist
• 1957

  Alexander Tkachyov, Soviet gymnast
• 1957

  Bill Fagerbakke, American actor
• 1963

  Koji Ishikawa, Japanese children’s author
• 1976

  Santiago, Brazilian footballer
• 1983

  Marios Nicolaou, Greek-Cypriot footballer

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