What Day of the Week

January 11, 2021 was the 11^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 354 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Getsuyōbi.

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

Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 1693

  Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
• 1759

  In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
• 1779

  Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
• 1794

  Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties.
• 1863

  American Civil War: ship CSS encountered and sank the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
• 1919

  Romania annexes Transylvania.
• 1943

  Italian-American Anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York
• 1949

  The first “networked” television broadcasts take place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
• 1957

  The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
• 1994

  The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.

• 1858

  Harry Gordon Selfridge, American retailer (d. 1947)
• 1870

  Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (d. 1945)
• 1885

  Alice Paul, American women’s rights activist (d. 1977)
• 1887

  Aldo Leopold, American ecologist (d. 1948)
• 1926

  Lev Demin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1998)
• 1932

  Alfonso Arau, Mexican film director
• 1946

  Naomi Judd, American singer
• 1953

  John Sessions, Scottish actor
• 1985

  Newton Faulkner, British singer
• 1989

  Darko Bodul, Croatian footballer

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