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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• 539 BC

  Cyrus the Great marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile. Cyrus allows the Jews to return to Yehud Medinata and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.
• 1091

  London Tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
• 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.
• 1907

  Guglielmo Marconi’s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
• 1941

  For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
• 1943

  Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed.
• 1956

  The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
• 2000

  Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
• 2001

  Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi became the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.

• 1577

  Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (d. 1621)
• 1903

  Nathanael West, American writer (d. 1940)
• 1921

  Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (d. 2001)
• 1926

  Beverly Garland, American actress (d. 2008)
• 1937

  Paxton Whitehead, English actor
• 1946

  Ronni Chasen, American film publicist (d. 2010)
• 1951

  Roger Pontare, Swedish singer
• 1960

  Rob Marshall, American director
• 1977

  Alimi Ballard, American actor
• 1978

  Erin Karpluk, Canadian television actress

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