What Day of the Week

October 26, 2018 was the 299^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 66 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

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

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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.
• 1774

  The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1881

  The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
• 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.
• 1942

  World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged.
• 1958

  Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
• 1968

  Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
• 1992

  The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
• 1999

  Britain’s House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain’s upper chamber of Parliament.
• 2000

  Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï.

• 1874

  Martin Lowry, British chemist (d. 1936)
• 1914

  Jackie Coogan, American actor (d. 1984)
• 1919

  Frank Bourgholtzer, American television correspondent (d. 2010)
• 1947

  Jaclyn Smith, American actress
• 1952

  David Was, member of 1980's group Was (Not Was)
• 1956

  Stephen Gumley, Australian businessman
• 1957

  Julie Dawn Cole, British actress
• 1961

  Dylan McDermott, American actor
• 1970

  Lisa Ryder, Canadian actress
• 1984

  Amanda Overmyer, American singer

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