What Day of the Week

October 8, 2022 is the 281^st day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 84 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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

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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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• 1860

  Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
• 1904

  Prince Albert, Saskatchewan was incorporated as a city.
• 1912

  First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
• 1918

  World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
• 1973

  Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir’s armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed.
• 1978

  Australia’s Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
• 1990

  Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount.
• 1991

  Croatia votes to sever constitutional relations with Yugoslavia, making the country fully independent
• 2001

  A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.
• 2005

  2005 Kashmir earthquake: Thousands of people are killed by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.

• 1834

  Walter Kittredge, American musician (d. 1905)
• 1919

  Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2007)
• 1921

  Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist (d. 2010)
• 1935

  Albert Roux, French chef
• 1946

  Jean-Jacques Beineix, French film director
• 1947

  Stephen Shore, American photographer
• 1966

  Camille Coduri, British actress
• 1969

  Julia Ann, American pornographic actress
• 1970

  Anne-Marie Duff, English actress
• 1981

  Kalil Wilson, American vocalist

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