What Day Of The Week Is October 17?

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Saturday October 17, 2026
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

October 17: Day of the Week

October 17, 2026 is the 290th day of the year 2026 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 75 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.

Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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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October 17 by the Numbers

  • 250 days since October 17
  • 0 year, 8 months, and 8 days ago
  • 8 months since then
  • October 17 is in the 42nd week of the year 2026 (ISO 8601)
  • 35 weeks ago
  • The year 2026 is not a leap year

October 17 Historical Event(s)

1346Battle of Neville’s Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years. 1781American Revolutionary War: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown. 1933Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States. 1943Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed. 1945Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens becomes Prime Minister of Greece between the pull-out of the German occupation force in 1944 and the return of King Georgios II to Greece. 1966Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations. 1977German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board. 1998At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline. 2003The pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 56 m and become the World’s tallest highrise. 2010Mary MacKillop is canonized (in Rome) and becomes the first saint of Australia.

Who were born on October 17?

1865James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (d. 1950) 1909Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (d. 1981) 1912Pope John Paul I (d. 1978) 1923Barney Kessel, American musician (d. 2004) 1935Sydney Chapman, English politician and architect 1942Steve Jones, American basketball player 1948Margot Kidder, Canadian actress 1963Sergio Goycochea, Argentine footballer 1979Alexandros Nikolaidis, Greek taekwondo athlete 1982Nick Riewoldt, Australian rules footballer

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