What Day of the Week

October 26, 2023 is the 299^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 66 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.

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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• 1775

  King George III goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.
• 1860

  Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
• 1909

  Itō Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, was shot to death by Korean independence supporter Ahn Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.
• 1955

  Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
• 1964

  Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
• 1984

  “Baby Fae” receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
• 1985

  The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines.
• 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.
• 2003

  The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acre, and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.

• 1854

  C. W. Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1914)
• 1899

  Judy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1989)
• 1916

  Boyd Wagner, First USAAF fighter ace of World War II (d. 1942)
• 1916

  François Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996)
• 1925

  Jan Wolkers, Dutch author (d. 2007)
• 1948

  Toby Harrah, American baseball player
• 1953

  Keith Strickland, American musician (The B-52's)
• 1957

  Julie Dawn Cole, British actress
• 1966

  Jeanne Zelasko, American sportcaster
• 1974

  Raveena Tandon, Indian actress

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