What Day of the Week

October 9, 2020 was the 283^rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 83 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

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

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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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• 1264

  The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711.
• 1514

  Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
• 1604

  Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
• 1635

  Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
• 1701

  The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
• 1831

  Capo d'Istria, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated.
• 1911

  An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
• 1942

  Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
• 1983

  Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast.
• 2001

  Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.

• 1328

  King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
• 1886

  Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980)
• 1928

  Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
• 1938

  Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
• 1940

  Gordon Humphrey, American politician
• 1940

  John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
• 1954

  John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host
• 1960

  Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist
• 1972

  Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor
• 1981

  Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor

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