What Day of the Week

October 14, 2022 is the 287^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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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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• 1586

  Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
• 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.
• 1912

  While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
• 1949

  Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong, China.
• 1952

  Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
• 1958

  The District of Columbia’s Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys.
• 1967

  The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army’s induction center in Oakland, California.
• 1973

  In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government; 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
• 1998

  Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.

• 1404

  Marie of Anjou, queen of France (d. 1463)
• 1892

  Sumner Welles, American diplomat (d. 1961)
• 1916

  C. Everett Koop, 13th United States Surgeon General
• 1926

  Bill Justis, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1982)
• 1930

  Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (d. 1997)
• 1938

  Empress Farah Diba of Iran
• 1941

  Jerry Glanville, American football coach
• 1958

  Thomas Dolby, English musician
• 1967

  Stephen A. Smith, American sports journalist
• 1968

  Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer

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