What Day of the Week

October 7, 2019 is the 280^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 85 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

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

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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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• 1542

  Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off the California coast.
• 1780

  American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
• 1826

  The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
• 1916

  Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
• 1919

  KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
• 1940

  World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
• 1944

  World War II: Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
• 1958

  President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
• 1958

  The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
• 1993

  The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.

• 1885

  Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
• 1914

  Alfred Drake, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1914

  Sarah Churchill, British actress (d. 1982)
• 1931

  Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball coach (d. 2004)
• 1943

  Joy Behar, American television personality
• 1961

  Matthew Roloff, American reality star
• 1964

  Dan Savage, American sex-columnist and author
• 1971

  Daniel Boucher, Québécois musician
• 1976

  Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer
• 1982

  Jermain Defoe, English footballer

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