What Day Of The Week Is October 30?

October 30: Day of the Week

October 30, 2026 is the 303rd day of the year 2026 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 62 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is viernes.

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

October					2026
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Scorpio 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.

October 30 by the Numbers

• 264 days since October 30
• 0 year, 8 months, and 22 days ago
• 8 months since then
• October 30 is in the 44th week of the year 2026 (ISO 8601)
• 37 weeks ago
• The year 2026 is not a leap year

October 30 Historical Event(s)

1831In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history. 1864Second war of Schleswig ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration. 1905Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia’s first constitution, creating a legislative assembly. 1918The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East. 1938Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States. 1950Pope Pius XII witnesses “The Miracle of the Sun” while at the Vatican. 1953Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States’ arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat. 1961Because of “violations of Lenin’s precepts”, it is decreed that Joseph Stalin’s body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin’s tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead. 1995Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote is 50.6% to 49.4%). 2000The last Multics machine is shut down.

Who were born on October 30?

1513Jacques Amyot, French writer (d. 1593) 1871Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949) 1896Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985) 1906Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (d. 1966) 1909Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966) 1951Poncho Sanchez, Mexican-American conga player 1954Mario Testino, Peruvian-born English fashion photographer 1960Diego Maradona, Argentine footballer 1967Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player 1970Ben Bailey, American game show host

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