October 1997 Day Of The Week - 1997 October Calendar Month View

About Month of October Calendar

October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October retained its name after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans.

October symbols: The birthstones of Octoberare the tourmaline and opal. Its birth flower is the calendula. The zodiac signs for the month of October are Libra (until October 22) or Scorpio (October 23 onwards). October Star Stones: Libra (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22). Planetary Stone: Sapphire; Lucky Charms: Opal, Sardonyx, Chrysolite; birthstone: pink Tourmaline, Opal. Scorpio (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21). Planetary Stone: Garnet, Ruby; Lucky Charms: Aquamarine, Beryl. October Mystical birthstone is Jasper. October Ayurvedic Birthstone is Opal.

Day of Week 2nd » Amsterdam Treaty on European Union is signed.
Day of Week 4th » The 1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in North Carolina named second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Wells Fargo named Loomis, Fargo and Company. A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation eventually re
Day of Week 10th » An Austral Líneas Aéreas known as Austral Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 e.g DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
Day of Week 12th » Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
Day of Week 15th » The Cassini-Huygens Mission known as Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
Day of Week 25th » After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
Day of Week 27th » October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world stock market crash named crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15.
Day of Week 29th » Anton Lavey, founder of the Church of Satan, dies in San Francisco of pulmonary edema

1st » Jerome H. Lemelson, American engineer (b. 1923)
3rd » Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Nigerian politician, 3rd Governor of Ondo State (b. 1908)
4th » Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created Game Boy (b. 1941)
4th » Otto Ernst Remer, German general (b. 1912)
5th » Brian Pillman, American football player and wrestler (b. 1962)
6th » Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1914)
8th » Bertrand Goldberg, American architect, designed the Marina City or Marina City Building (b. 1913)
12th » John Denver, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Chad Mitchell Trio and The John Denver Band) (b. 1943)
14th » Harold Robbins, American author (b. 1915)
17th » Larry Jennings, American magician (b. 1933)
19th » Glen Buxton, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1947)
22nd » Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
23rd » Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
24th » Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926)
24th » Denise Levertov, English-American poet (b. 1923)
28th » Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1915)
29th » Anton LaVey, American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
29th » Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1947)
30th » Samuel Fuller, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)