What Day of the Week

October 29, 2022 is the 302^nd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 63 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is samedi.

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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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• 539 BC

  Cyrus the Great enters the city of Babylon, detains Nabonidus and ends the Babylonian captivity. He gives the Jews permission to return to Yehud province and to rebuild the Temple; but most Jews choose to remain in Babylon.
• 969

  Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria.
• 1422

  Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France.
• 1467

  Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege.
• 1792

  Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
• 1967

  London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
• 1980

  Mark David Chapman, John Lennon’s murderer, leaves for New York from his home in Hawaii.
• 1994

  Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
• 1998

  While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
• 1999

  A large cyclone devastates Orissa, India.

• 1940

  Connie Mack, U.S. Senator from Florida
• 1942

  Bob Ross, American artist and television host (d. 1995)
• 1955

  Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) (d. 2007)
• 1964

  Eddie McGuire, Australian television presenter
• 1968

  Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater
• 1970

  Phillip Cocu, Dutch footballer
• 1978

  Travis Henry, American football player
• 1979

  Andrew-Lee Potts, English actor
• 1981

  Reema Sen, Indian actress
• 1983

  Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor

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