What Day of the Week

October 5, 2021 is the 278^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 87 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

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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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• 1550

  Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
• 1665

  The University of Kiel is founded.
• 1930

  British Airship R101 crashes in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
• 1944

  Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
• 1944

  Suffrage is extended to women in France.
• 1970

  Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis.
• 1984

  Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
• 1986

  Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu’s story on its front page under the headline: “Revealed — the secrets of Israel’s nuclear arsenal”.
• 1988

  The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by Constituent Assembly.
• 1999

  The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.

• 1703

  Jonathan Edwards, American minister (d. 1758)
• 1848

  Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
• 1909

  Tony Malinosky, American baseball player (d. 2011)
• 1917

  Allen Ludden, American television game show host (d. 1981)
• 1926

  Willi Unsoeld, American climber (d. 1979)
• 1932

  Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (d. 2006)
• 1933

  Diane Cilento, Australian actress
• 1934

  Angelo Buono, Jr., American serial killer (d. 2002)
• 1975

  Bobo Baldé, Guinean footballer
• 1981

  Kelvin Tan Wei Lian, Singaporean singer

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