What Day of the Week

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

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is dimanche.

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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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• 1009

  The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church’s foundations down to bedrock.
• 1356

  Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
• 1386

  Opening of the University of Heidelberg.
• 1775

  American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine) prompts the Continental Congress to establish the Continental Navy.
• 1797

  Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
• 1851

  Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
• 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.
• 1945

  The USSR’s nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• 1991

  The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.

• 1595

  Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655)
• 1902

  Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)
• 1925

  Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician {d. 2011}
• 1932

  Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician
• 1947

  Laura Nyro, American singer and songwriter (d. 1997)
• 1959

  Kirby Chambliss, American aerobatic pilot
• 1962

  Vincent Spano, American actor
• 1966

  Slavi Trifonov, Bulgarian showman
• 1970

  José Padilla, American convicted terrorist
• 1977

  Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer

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