What Day of the Week

October 8, 2019 is the 281^st day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 84 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

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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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• 1200

  Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England.
• 1582

  Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1806

  Napoleonic Wars: Forces of the British Empire lay siege to the port of Boulogne in France by using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve.
• 1813

  The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bayern and Austria.
• 1856

  The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
• 1970

  Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon’s October 7 peace proposal as “a maneuver to deceive world opinion”.
• 1974

  Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
• 1982

  Poland bans Solidarity and all trade unions.
• 1998

  Oslo’s Gardermoen airport opens after the close down of Fornebu airport.
• 2001

  A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.

• 1676

  Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (d. 1764)
• 1850

  Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist (d. 1936)
• 1883

  Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
• 1944

  Susan Raye, American singer
• 1959

  Mike Morgan, American baseball player
• 1960

  Ralf Minge, German footballer
• 1960

  Reed Hastings, American businessman and entrepreneur
• 1969

  Julia Ann, American pornographic actress
• 1974

  Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower
• 1976

  Renate Groenewold, Dutch speed skater

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