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 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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• 1853

  Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
• 1876

  Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
• 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.
• 1927

  Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
• 1940

  Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
• 1941

  Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
• 1958

  Fifth Republic of France is established.
• 2001

  NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
• 2001

  Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.

• 1931

  Sir Terence Conran, English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer
• 1942

  Johanna Sigurdardottir, Prime Minister of Iceland
• 1943

  Dietmar Mürdter, German footballer
• 1946

  Chuck Hagel, American politician
• 1947

  Julien Clerc, French singer
• 1955

  Jorge Valdano, Argentine footballer
• 1968

  Richard Hancox, English footballer
• 1975

  Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian football player
• 1983

  Dan Clarke, British racing driver
• 1983

  Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player

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