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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• 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.
• 1793

  Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
• 1841

  Queen’s University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• 1843

  Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
• 1934

  Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
• 1951

  The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
• 1973

  Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1975

  The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government’s annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
• 1995

  The Skye Bridge is opened.
• 1996

  Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.

• 1430

  King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
• 1897

  Louis de Cazenave, French supercentenarian (d. 2008)
• 1917

  Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
• 1922

  Leon Sullivan, American civil rights leader and pastor (d. 2001)
• 1940

  Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (d. 2003)
• 1948

  Hema Malini, Indian Actress
• 1961

  Marc Levy, French novelist
• 1961

  Randy Vasquez, American actor
• 1969

  Takao Ōmori, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1978

  Ethan Luck, American musician (The O.C. Supertones, Demon Hunter, Relient K)

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