What Day of the Week

October 1, 2023 is the 274^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 91 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is domingo.

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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.

• 1553

  Coronation of Queen Mary I of England
• 1811

  The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
• 1854

  The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
• 1946

  Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
• 1962

  First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
• 1964

  Japanese Shinkansen (“bullet trains”) begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
• 1964

  The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
• 1966

  West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
• 1971

  Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
• 2009

  The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.

• 1907

  Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-born Israeli violist and composer (d. 1977)
• 1920

  Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
• 1955

  Howard Hewett, American singer
• 1959

  Mark Aizlewood, Welsh footballer
• 1967

  Mike Pringle, American football player
• 1968

  Jon Guenther, American author
• 1968

  Rob Collard, British racing driver
• 1978

  Leticia Cline, American model and TV personality
• 1982

  Sandra Oxenryd, Swedish singer
• 1986

  Sayaka, Japanese singer

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