What Day of the Week

October 26, 2021 is the 299^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 66 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

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Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Scorpio 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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• 1689

  General Piccolomini of Austria burned down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after.
• 1860

  Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
• 1912

  First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron Saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje.
• 1917

  World War I: Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers.
• 1921

  The Chicago Theatre opens.
• 1943

  World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 “Pfeil”.
• 1958

  Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
• 1967

  Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran.
• 1985

  The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines.
• 1992

  The London Ambulance Service is thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new CAD, or Computer Aided Dispatch, system which failed.

• 1491

  Zhengde Emperor of China (d. 1521)
• 1850

  Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist (d. 1909)
• 1873

  Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1942)
• 1893

  Miloš Crnjanski, Serbian poet and author (d. 1977)
• 1915

  Joe Fry, British racing driver (d. 1950)
• 1947

  Trevor Joyce, Irish poet
• 1957

  Bob Golic, American football player
• 1957

  Julie Dawn Cole, British actress
• 1983

  Luke Watson, South African rugby player
• 1985

  Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player

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