What Day of the Week

October 17, 2022 is the 290^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 75 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

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

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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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• 1346

  Battle of Neville’s Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
• 1448

  Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi is defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II.
• 1771

  Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15.
• 1777

  American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
• 1806

  Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
• 1814

  London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine.
• 1860

  First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
• 1931

  Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
• 1941

  German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece.
• 1965

  The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 million people had attended the two-year event.

• 1253

  Saint Ivo of Kermartin (d. 1303)
• 1817

  Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Hindustani intellectual (d. 1898)
• 1912

  Jack Owens, American singer/songwriter (d. 1982)
• 1918

  Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
• 1921

  George Mackay Brown, Scottish Poet (d.1996)
• 1935

  Sydney Chapman, English politician and architect
• 1947

  Michael McKean, American actor
• 1951

  Roger Pontare, Swedish singer
• 1963

  Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian and actor
• 1979

  Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player

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