What Day of the Week

October 5, 2020 was the 279^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 87 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

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

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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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• 869

  The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
• 1450

  Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
• 1550

  Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
• 1857

  The City of Anaheim is founded.
• 1903

  Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
• 1914

  World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.
• 1962

  Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
• 1970

  The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
• 1990

  After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
• 1991

  The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.

• 1848

  Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
• 1879

  Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1970)
• 1909

  Tony Malinosky, American baseball player (d. 2011)
• 1929

  Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
• 1939

  Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
• 1940

  Thom Christopher, American actor
• 1958

  Neil DeGrasse Tyson, American Astrophysicist
• 1962

  Michael Andretti, American race car driver
• 1978

  Morgan Webb, Canadian-born television presenter
• 1980

  James Toseland, British motorcycle racer

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