What day of the week was October 18, 1775?

The day of the week October 18th, 1775 fell on was a Wednesday.

Christian August Crusius the German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715) died on this day in 1775.

African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery. American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland the Maine) prompts the Continental Congress to establish the Continental Navy.