What Day of the Week

October 22, 2020 is the 296^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 70 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is jueves.

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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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• 1383

  The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
• 1746

  The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
• 1797

  One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
• 1875

  First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
• 1879

  Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
• 1907

  Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
• 1934

  In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
• 1962

  Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval “quarantine” of the Communist nation.
• 1981

  The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
• 2008

  India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.

• 1858

  German Empress Augusta Victoria, wife of German Emperor Wilhelm II (d. 1921)
• 1913

  Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (d. 2008)
• 1922

  Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (d. 2001)
• 1923

  Bert Trautmann, German former footballer
• 1929

  Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (d. 1990)
• 1945

  Leslie West, American musician
• 1945

  Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor and television host
• 1969

  Helmut Lotti, Belgian singer
• 1971

  Kornel David, Hungarian basketball player
• 1985

  Evagelia Aravani, Greek fashion model

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