What Day of the Week

October 30, 2020 is the 304^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 62 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

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

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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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• 1137

  Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
• 1226

  Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forces Ly Hue Tong, the last emperor of the Ly dynasty, to commit suicide.
• 1270

  The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
• 1831

  In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
• 1905

  Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia’s first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
• 1922

  Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
• 1961

  Because of “violations of Lenin’s precepts”, it is decreed that Joseph Stalin’s body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin’s tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
• 1970

  In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
• 1975

  Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain’s acting head of state, taking over for the country’s ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
• 2005

  The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.

• 1886

  Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
• 1887

  Sukumar Ray, Bengali Writer (d. 1923)
• 1915

  Jane Randolph, American Actress d. 2009
• 1917

  Bobby Bragan, American baseball player (d. 2010)
• 1932

  Louis Malle, French film director (d. 1995)
• 1941

  Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1943

  Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
• 1956

  Juliet Stevenson, English actress
• 1961

  Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician
• 1980

  John Foo, Irish martial artist and actor

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