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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• 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.
• 1857

  The City of Anaheim is founded.
• 1877

  Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
• 1895

  The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
• 1910

  In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared .
• 1914

  World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.
• 1944

  Suffrage is extended to women in France.
• 1969

  The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus airs on BBC.
• 1982

  Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.

• 1703

  Jonathan Edwards, American minister (d. 1758)
• 1844

  Francis William Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
• 1887

  René Cassin, French jurist and Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
• 1919

  Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
• 1921

  Bill Willis, American football player (d. 2007)
• 1922

  Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1985)
• 1961

  Sharon Cheslow, American musician, composer and artist
• 1962

  Caron Keating, British television personality (d. 2004)
• 1975

  Carson Ellis, American artist
• 1986

  Mladen Bartulović, Croatian footballer

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