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 Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is domingo.

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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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• 68 BC

  Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.
• 1849

  The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
• 1889

  Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
• 1939

  World War II: The last Polish army is defeated.
• 1973

  Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
• 1979

  Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
• 1981

  Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
• 1985

  PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
• 2000

  Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
• 2002

  The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.

• 1803

  Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
• 1915

  Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (d. 2007)
• 1949

  Nicolas Peyrac, French composer, lyricist and singer
• 1954

  David Hidalgo, American musician (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys)
• 1956

  Kathleen Webb, American comic book writer and artist
• 1962

  Rich Yett, baseball player
• 1971

  Alan Stubbs, English footballer
• 1982

  Levon Aronian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
• 1982

  MC Lars, American hip-hop artist
• 1991

  Roshon Fegan, American actor

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