What Day of the Week

October 6, 2019 is the 279^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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

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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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• 1582

  Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1600

  Jacopo Peri’s Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
• 1889

  Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
• 1898

  Ossian Everett Mills founds Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1903

  The High Court of Australia sat for the first time.
• 1927

  Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
• 1973

  Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
• 1976

  Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
• 1979

  Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
• 2000

  Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.

• 1510

  John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
• 1921

  Joseph Lowery, American Civil rights movement leader
• 1946

  Lloyd Doggett, American politician and Member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas
• 1947

  Patxi Andión, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1953

  Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)
• 1964

  Ricky Berry, American basketball player (d. 1989)
• 1966

  Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
• 1967

  Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman
• 1971

  Alan Stubbs, English footballer
• 1982

  Levon Aronian, Armenian chess Grandmaster

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