What Day of the Week

October 18, 2020 is the 292^nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 74 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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

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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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• 1081

  The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
• 1648

  Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
• 1797

  Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
• 1860

  The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
• 1912

  First Balkan War: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration “To the Serbian People”, as Serbia joins the war.
• 1921

  The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the RSFSR.
• 1929

  The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered “Persons” under Canadian law.
• 1944

  Soviet Union begins liberation of Czechoslovakia.
• 1954

  Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
• 1968

  The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a “black power” salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.

• 1127

  Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
• 1785

  Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (d. 1866)
• 1868

  Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931)
• 1894

  H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
• 1902

  Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
• 1939

  Lee Harvey Oswald, American alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
• 1946

  James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter
• 1947

  Job Cohen, Dutch politician
• 1952

  Patrick Morrow, Canadian mountaineer
• 1954

  Liz Burch, Australian actress

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