What Day of the Week

October 5, 2022 is the 278^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 87 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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

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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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• 1143

  King Alfonso VII of León recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
• 1665

  The University of Kiel is founded.
• 1789

  French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
• 1793

  French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
• 1864

  The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
• 1869

  The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
• 1877

  Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
• 1968

  Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
• 1999

  The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
• 2000

  Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.

• 1641

  Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
• 1878

  Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965)
• 1924

  Bill Dana, American actor
• 1948

  Tawl Ross, American musician (P Funk)
• 1964

  Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor
• 1971

  Samuel Vincent, Canadian voice actor
• 1972

  Grant Hill, American basketball player
• 1972

  Thomas Roberts, American news anchor
• 1975

  Bobo Baldé, Guinean footballer
• 1983

  Noot Seear, Canadian fashion model and actress

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