What Day of the Week

October 9, 2019 is the 282^nd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is miércoles.

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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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• 1238

  James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
• 1264

  The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711.
• 1740

  Dutch colonists and various slave groups begin massacring ethnic Chinese in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading to a two-year-long war throughout Java.
• 1845

  The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1911

  An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
• 1913

  Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
• 1941

  A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
• 1942

  Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
• 1966

  Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh massacre
• 1970

  The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.

• 1581

  Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638)
• 1879

  Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
• 1892

  Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
• 1909

  Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
• 1920

  Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
• 1943

  Mike Peters, American cartoonist
• 1945

  Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)
• 1971

  Michael Manna, American professional wrestler
• 1973

  Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
• 1973

  Terry Balsamo, American guitarist (Evanescence)

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