What Day of the Week

October 10, 2022 is the 283^rd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 82 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

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

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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.

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• 680

  Battle of Karbala: Hussain bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Muslims as Aashurah.
• 1575

  Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
• 1860

  The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
• 1913

  President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
• 1945

  The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement.
• 1957

  The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world’s first major nuclear accident.
• 1973

  Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
• 1980

  A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs in the Algerian town of El Asnam. 3.500 die and 300,000 are left homeless.
• 2009

  Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
• 2010

  The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.

• 1914

  Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1924

  Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (d. 2004)
• 1935

  Abu Jihad, Founder of the Palestinian group Fatah (d. 1988)
• 1936

  Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007.
• 1946

  Charles Dance, English actor
• 1967

  Jonathan Littell, French-American writer
• 1969

  Francis Escudero, Filipino senator
• 1970

  Mohammed Mourhit, Belgian athlete
• 1971

  Ian Bennett, English footballer
• 1984

  Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer

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