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 French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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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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• 768

  Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
• 1708

  Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
• 1740

  Dutch colonists and various slave groups begin massacring ethnic Chinese in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading to a two-year-long war throughout Java.
• 1776

  Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
• 1834

  Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
• 1874

  General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
• 1966

  Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh massacre
• 1991

  Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1999

  The last flight of the SR-71.
• 2006

  North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.

• 1261

  King Dinis of Portugal (d. 1325)
• 1704

  Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
• 1757

  King Charles X of France (d. 1836)
• 1953

  Tony Shalhoub, American actor
• 1954

  John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host
• 1954

  Scott Bakula, American actor
• 1958

  Michael Pare, American actor
• 1959

  Michael Cobley, English-born Scottish writer
• 1968

  Troy Anthony Davis, American high-profile death row inmate and human rights activist (d. 2011)
• 1971

  Michael Manna, American professional wrestler

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