What Day of the Week

October 4, 2020 was the 278^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 88 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

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

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Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Libra 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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• 1363

  End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
• 1795

  Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a “Whiff of Grapeshot”, using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention).
• 1830

  Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.
• 1895

  The first U.S. Open Men’s Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
• 1941

  Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
• 1957

  Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
• 1958

  Fifth Republic of France is established.
• 1983

  Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
• 1991

  The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
• 2010

  The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severly contaminated.

• 1276

  Margaret of Brabant, Queen of Germany (d. 1311)
• 1626

  Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1712)
• 1861

  Frederic Remington, American painter (d. 1909)
• 1868

  Marcelo T. de Alvear, Argentine politician (d. 1942)
• 1917

  Violeta Parra, Chilean folklorist and visual artist (d. 1967)
• 1960

  Joe Boever, American baseball player
• 1963

  A. C. Green, American basketball player
• 1965

  Olaf Backasch, German footballer
• 1975

  Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian football player
• 1978

  Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer

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