What Day of the Week

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

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

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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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• 1692

  The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
• 1792

  First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
• 1822

  Peter I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Brazil
• 1871

  Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.
• 1960

  Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe
• 1960

  Inejiro Asanuma, Chair of the Japanese Socialist Party, is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The cameras were rolling at the time, so the moment was caught on film.
• 1964

  The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits
• 1970

  Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
• 1999

  The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.
• 2000

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

• 1490

  Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (d. 1548)
• 1798

  Pedro I of Brazil (d. 1834)
• 1855

  Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (d. 1922)
• 1893

  Velvalee Dickinson, American spy (d. 1980)
• 1950

  Robin Askwith, English actor
• 1963

  Luis Polonia, Dominican baseball player
• 1963

  Raimond Aumann, German footballer
• 1965

  Jean-Jacques Daigneault, Canadian hockey player
• 1979

  Steven Agnew, Northern Irish politician
• 1986

  Emmanuel Nwachi, Nigerian footballer

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