What Day of the Week

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

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

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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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• 1693

  Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
• 1883

  First meeting of the Boys’ Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
• 1918

  An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which were still being found as of 2007.
• 1957

  Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
• 1957

  Sputnik 1 is launched by the Soviet Union.
• 1966

  Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
• 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.
• 1997

  The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
• 2001

  NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
• 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.

• 1861

  Frederic Remington, American painter (d. 1909)
• 1861

  Walter Rauschenbusch, Christian Theologian and Baptist Minister (d. 1918)
• 1903

  John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (d. 1995)
• 1916

  Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2009)
• 1917

  Violeta Parra, Chilean folklorist and visual artist (d. 1967)
• 1929

  Scotty Beckett, American child actor (d. 1968)
• 1936

  Charlie Hurley, Irish footballer
• 1942

  Johanna Sigurdardottir, Prime Minister of Iceland
• 1943

  Margaret Pemberton, English writer
• 1979

  Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress

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