What Day of the Week

October 14, 2020 is the 288^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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

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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.
• 1808

  The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
• 1840

  The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.
• 1910

  The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
• 1933

  Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.
• 1947

  Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.
• 1956

  Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
• 1964

  Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies - such as Alexei Kosygin - the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as a nonperson in the USSR.
• 1983

  Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and later executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.
• 2004

  A special nine-member council selects Norodom Sihamoni as the new King of Cambodia, replacing his father who abdicated a week earlier.

• 1946

  Al Oliver, American baseball player
• 1952

  Harry Anderson, American actor
• 1964

  Joe Girardi, American baseball player and manager
• 1967

  Savanna Samson, American porn star
• 1975

  Shaznay Lewis, English singer (All Saints)
• 1977

  Kelly Schumacher, Canadian basketball player
• 1978

  Justin Brannan, American musician, writer
• 1978

  Usher, American singer and actor
• 1979

  Stacy Keibler, American actress and professional wrestler
• 1980

  Terrence McGee, American football player

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