What Day of the Week

October 29, 2020 is the 303^rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 63 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Mokuyōbi.

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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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• 1611

  Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
• 1863

  American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie – Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• 1886

  The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
• 1948

  Safsaf massacre.
• 1957

  Israel’s prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel’s parliament, the Knesset.
• 1961

  Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
• 1980

  Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base’s Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
• 1980

  Mark David Chapman, John Lennon’s murderer, leaves for New York from his home in Hawaii.
• 1986

  British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
• 2004

  The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.

• 1822

  Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (d. 1902)
• 1861

  Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
• 1880

  Abram Ioffe, Soviet physicist (d. 1960)
• 1947

  Helen Coonan, Australian politician
• 1948

  Frans de Waal, Dutch primatologist
• 1948

  Kate Jackson, American actress
• 1949

  James Williamson, American guitarist
• 1967

  Joely Fisher, American actress
• 1970

  Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer
• 1972

  Gabrielle Union, American actress

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