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 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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• 1216

  King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge
• 1582

  Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1773

  America‘s first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’in Virginia
• 1822

  Peter I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Brazil
• 1892

  The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage.
• 1944

  World War II: The Liberation of Athens from the German invaders.
• 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.
• 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
• 1970

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

• 1865

  Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
• 1906

  John Murray, American playwright (d.1984)
• 1913

  Alice Chetwynd Ley, British romance writer (d. 2004)
• 1945

  Dusty Rhodes, American professional wrestler
• 1948

  Rick Parfitt, British musician (Status Quo)
• 1970

  Charlie Ward, American pro basketball player
• 1977

  Bode Miller, American alpine ski-racer
• 1977

  Jessica Barker, Canadian actress
• 1986

  Emmanuel Nwachi, Nigerian footballer
• 1990

  Henri Lansbury, English footballer

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