What day of the week was October 11, 1809?

The day of the week October 11th, 1809 fell on was a Wednesday.

Meriwether Lewis the American captain, explorer, and politician, 2nd Governor of Louisiana Territory (b. 1774) died on this day in 1809.

Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee the explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.