What Day of the Week

January 11, 2020 was the 11^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 355 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

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

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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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• 1055

  Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1569

  First recorded lottery in England.
• 1693

  Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
• 1863

  American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post – General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
• 1927

  Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announced the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
• 1935

  Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
• 1946

  Enver Hoxha declares the People’s Republic of Albania with himself as president.
• 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.
• 1964

  United States Surgeon General Dr. Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a landmark report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking nation- and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
• 1998

  Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed.

• 1671

  François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (d. 1745)
• 1905

  Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
• 1911

  Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
• 1921

  Juanita M. Kreps, American economist, educator, & civil servant; 24th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 2010)
• 1922

  Ernle Bradford, English historian and writer (d. 1986)
• 1923

  Jerome Bixby, American writer (d. 1998)
• 1924

  Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
• 1944

  Shibu Soren, Indian politician
• 1959

  Rob Ramage, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967

  Derek Riddell, Scottish actor

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