Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: October 20
October 20, 2025 is the 293rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 72 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Libra is your zodiac sign. Opal is your modern birthstone. Jasper is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: October 20
- 1720 –Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy.
- 1740 –Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
- 1781 –Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
- 1818 –The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the Canada – United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
- 1939 –Pope Pius XII publishes his first major encyclical entitled Summi Pontificatus.
- 1941 –World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are killed in the Kragujevac massacre.
- 1943 –The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Suda Bay, Crete, and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
- 1971 –The Nepal Stock Exchange collapses.
- 1973 –The Sydney Opera House opens.
- 1981 –Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery in Rockland County, NY, carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground.
Who were born on October 20?
- 1677 –Stanisław I Leszczyński, King of Poland (d. 1766)
- 1822 –Thomas Hughes, English novelist (d. 1896)
- 1858 –John Burns, English politician (d. 1943)
- 1905 –Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (d. 1965)
- 1910 –Bob Sheppard, American sports public address announcer (d. 2010)
- 1935 –Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1946 –Richard Loncraine, British film director
- 1961 –Ian Rush, Welsh footballer
- 1965 –Jil Caplan, French singer and songwriter
- 1988 –Candice Swanepoel, South African model
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