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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• 1582

  Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1604

  Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
• 1760

  Seven Years’ War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
• 1776

  Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
• 1861

  American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
• 1907

  Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
• 1911

  An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
• 1942

  Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
• 1991

  Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 2001

  Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.

• 1704

  Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
• 1907

  Horst Wessel, German Nazi and songwriter (d. 1930)
• 1915

  Clifford M. Hardin, 17th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2010)
• 1937

  Brian Blessed, English actor
• 1954

  James Fearnley, English musician (The Pogues)
• 1958

  Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry)
• 1961

  Julian Bailey, British racing driver
• 1972

  Audie England, American actress
• 1976

  Lee Peacock, Scottish footballer
• 1979

  Brandon Routh, American actor

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