What Day of the Week

October 6, 2021 is the 279^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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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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• 105 BC

  Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
• 1683

  German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
• 1876

  The American Library Association was founded.
• 1889

  Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
• 1903

  The High Court of Australia sat for the first time.
• 1923

  The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
• 1979

  Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
• 1985

  PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
• 1987

  Fiji becomes a republic.
• 2007

  Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

• 1803

  Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
• 1838

  Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
• 1846

  George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)
• 1946

  Lloyd Doggett, American politician and Member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas
• 1965

  Steve Scalise, American politician
• 1967

  Kennet Andersson, former Swedish footballer
• 1974

  Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer
• 1977

  Melinda Doolittle, American singer and recording artist
• 1977

  Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer
• 1979

  David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)

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