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, 2024 is the 294th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 72 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Sunday.
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.
- 1781 –Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
- 1873 –Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
- 1910 –The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- 1917 –The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
- 1939 –Pope Pius XII publishes his first major encyclical entitled Summi Pontificatus.
- 1961 –The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf class submarine.
- 1970 –Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state.
- 1971 –The Nepal Stock Exchange collapses.
- 1973 –“Saturday Night Massacre”: President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
Who were born on October 20?
- 1616 –Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
- 1854 –Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
- 1935 –Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1946 –Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist
- 1948 –Melih Gökçek, Turkish politician
- 1948 –Piet Hein Donner, Dutch politician and minister
- 1950 –Tom Petty, American musician
- 1954 –Günter Müller, German percussionist
- 1955 –Robert ten Brink, Dutch TV personality and actor
- 1981 –Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
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