What Day of the Week

January 12, 2021 was the 12^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 353 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

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

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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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• 1539

  Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
• 1773

  The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
• 1777

  Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.
• 1872

  Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
• 1899

  13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued from the stricken schooner Forest Hall by the Lynmouth Lifeboat when it floundered off the coast of Devon, England.
• 1921

  Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball’s first commissioner.
• 1971

  The Harrisburg Seven: The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
• 1976

  The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
• 1991

  Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
• 2004

  The world’s largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.

• 1597

  François Duquesnoy, French sculptor (d. 1643)
• 1786

  Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855)
• 1863

  Swami Vivekananda, Indian philosopher (d. 1902)
• 1937

  Shirley Eaton, British actress
• 1944

  Joe Frazier, American boxer (d. 2011)
• 1944

  Vlastimil Hort, Czechoslovakian chess player
• 1946

  Cynthia Robinson, American musician (Sly & the Family Stone)
• 1946

  Lady Cosgrove, Scottish judiciary figure
• 1969

  Robert Prosinečki, Croatian footballer
• 1995

  Laurel McGoff, American reality show contestant

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