What Day of the Week

October 16, 2020 is the 290^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kin'yōbi.

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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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• 456

  Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
• 1590

  Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.
• 1780

  Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
• 1793

  The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
• 1841

  Queen’s University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• 1846

  William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
• 1859

  John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
• 1945

  The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
• 1975

  Rahima Banu, a two-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
• 1993

  Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.

• 1795

  William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
• 1841

  Hirobumi Ito, Japanese politician (d. 1909)
• 1923

  Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (d. 1980)
• 1936

  Akira Machida, Japanese judge
• 1943

  Fred Turner, Canadian bass player (Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
• 1962

  Flea, Australian-born American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• 1970

  Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
• 1971

  Chad Gray, American singer
• 1975

  Ernesto Noel Aquino, Honduran footballer
• 1980

  Jeremy Jackson, American actor

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