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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• 1640

  The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
• 1795

  The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
• 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.
• 1947

  The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
• 1955

  Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
• 1958

  Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
• 1964

  Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
• 1977

  The last natural case of smallpox is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
• 1999

  Britain’s House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain’s upper chamber of Parliament.
• 2002

  Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.

• 1491

  Zhengde Emperor of China (d. 1521)
• 1684

  Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (d. 1757)
• 1869

  Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (d. 1957)
• 1909

  Dante Quinterno, Argentine comics artist (d. 2003)
• 1948

  Toby Harrah, American baseball player
• 1957

  Bob Golic, American football player
• 1966

  Jeanne Zelasko, American sportcaster
• 1970

  Dian Bachar, American actor
• 1979

  Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (d. 2002)
• 1981

  Sam Brown, American comedian

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