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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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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• 1656

  Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
• 1806

  Battle of Jena-Auerstädt France defeats Prussia.
• 1812

  Work on London’s Regent’s Canal starts.
• 1882

  University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan.
• 1908

  The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
• 1913

  Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom’s worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners.
• 1925

  An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
• 1938

  The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company’s P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
• 1939

  The GS U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
• 1958

  The District of Columbia’s Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys.

• 1630

  Sophia of Hanover, Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony (d. 1714)
• 1861

  Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)
• 1909

  Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1940

  Perrie Mans, South African snooker player
• 1944

  Udo Kier, German actor
• 1947

  Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist
• 1963

  Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer
• 1982

  Cosmin Curiman, Romanian football player
• 1982

  Ryan Hall, American marathoner
• 1986

  Skyler Shaye, American actress

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