What day of the week was October 9, 1873?

The day of the week October 9th, 1873 fell on was a Thursday.

Carl Flesch the Hungarian violinist and educator (d. 1944) was born on 09 October in 1873. As was Karl Schwarzschild the German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916) , Charles Rudolph Walgreen the American businessman, founded Walgreens (d. 1939) .

George Ormerod the English historian and author (b. 1785) died on this day in 1873.

A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.