What Day of the Week

October 12, 2018 was the 285^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 80 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

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

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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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• 1582

  Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1810

  First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
• 1901

  President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the “Executive Mansion” to the White House.
• 1933

  The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice
• 1942

  World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Gotō dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack.
• 1967

  Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam’s opposition
• 1968

  Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain
• 1970

  Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
• 1984

  Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
• 1994

  NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere).

• 1866

  Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1937)
• 1929

  Nappy Brown, American R&B singer (d. 2008)
• 1942

  Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter (Black Panther Party) (d. 1969)
• 1947

  George Lam, Hong Kong singer
• 1948

  Rick Parfitt, British musician (Status Quo)
• 1949

  Stan Hansen, American professional wrestler
• 1958

  Bryn Merrick, British musician, (The Damned)
• 1966

  Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish musician and author
• 1978

  Marko Jaric, Serbian basketball player
• 2001

  Raymond Ochoa, American actor

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