What Day of the Week

October 8, 2021 is the 281^st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 84 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is viernes.

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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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• 1075

  Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia.
• 1829

  Rail transport: Stephenson’s The Rocket wins The Rainhill Trials.
• 1860

  Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
• 1862

  American Civil War: Battle of Perryville – Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky.
• 1921

  KDKA in Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
• 1941

  World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
• 1968

  Vietnam War: Operation Sealords – United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.
• 1969

  The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois.
• 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.

• 1585

  Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)
• 1883

  Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
• 1910

  Kirk Alyn, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1917

  Walter Lord, American author (d. 2002)
• 1922

  Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and coach (d. 2007)
• 1944

  Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (d. 2010)
• 1947

  Stephen Shore, American photographer
• 1948

  Johnny Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2004)
• 1950

  Robert Kool Bell, American musician (Kool & the Gang)
• 1970

  Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video-game designer

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