What Day of the Week

October 12, 2021 was the 285^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 80 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kayōbi.

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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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• 1398

  The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
• 1917

  World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
• 1979

  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.
• 1979

  The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
• 1983

  Japan’s former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.
• 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).
• 1997

  Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
• 1999

  The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia
• 2000

  The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39
• 2002

  Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.

• 1887

  Paula von Preradović, Croatian-Austrian poet (d. 1951)
• 1893

  Velvalee Dickinson, American spy (d. 1980)
• 1906

  Joe Cronin, American baseball player and executive (d. 1984)
• 1947

  Chris Wallace, American journalist
• 1953

  Les Dennis, British comedian and presenter
• 1954

  Linval Thompson, Jamaican musician and record producer
• 1970

  Julian, American pornographic actor
• 1973

  Martin Corry, English rugby player
• 1991

  Nicolao Dumitru, Italian footballer
• 2001

  Raymond Ochoa, American actor

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