What Day of the Week

October 9, 2020 is the 283^rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is 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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• 1238

  James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
• 1514

  Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
• 1708

  Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
• 1804

  Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
• 1936

  Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
• 1940

  World War II: Battle of Britain – During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
• 1941

  A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
• 1966

  Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh massacre
• 1967

  A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
• 2001

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

• 1907

  Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
• 1915

  Clifford M. Hardin, 17th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2010)
• 1920

  Yusef Lateef, American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator
• 1941

  Karam ud Din, Pakistani Navy officer (d. 2008)
• 1941

  Trent Lott, American politician
• 1943

  Jimmy Montgomery, English footballer
• 1953

  Tony Shalhoub, American actor
• 1955

  Linwood Boomer, Canadian writer
• 1970

  Jason Butler Harner, American actor
• 1978

  Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)

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