This is our day guide for Wednesday October 14th 2020 which shows you at a glance what's happening on this day around the world. Using the calendar on this page, you can look at a day guide for any day. Why not look up your birthday to see which holidays you share it with?
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| General Information for October 14th 2020 | |
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| There are 6 public holidays today. | |
| Day 288 of 2020 | |
| 78 days left in 2020 | |
| Week 42 of the year | |
| On this Day in History | |
| 1999 - Irish Tenor Josef Locke dies aged 82. | |
| 1964 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies - such as Alexei Kosygin - the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as anonperson in the USSR. | |
| 1944 - Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head of government. | |
| 1890 - President Dwight D Eisenhower is born in Denison, Texas. |