What Day of the Week

October 9, 2021 is the 282^nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 83 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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• 1264

  The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711.
• 1446

  The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
• 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.
• 1806

  Prussia declares war on France.
• 1820

  Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
• 1913

  Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
• 1962

  Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
• 1967

  A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
• 1992

  A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family’s 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
• 2001

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

• 1328

  King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
• 1796

  Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
• 1835

  Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
• 1873

  Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d. 1939)
• 1900

  Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)
• 1921

  Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002)
• 1950

  Brian Downing, American baseball player
• 1973

  Steven Burns, American actor and musician
• 1978

  Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
• 1979

  Brandon Routh, American actor

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