What Day of the Week

January 15, 2021 was the 15^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 350 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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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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• 69

  Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but rules for only three months before committing suicide.
• 1908

  The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African-American college women.
• 1919

  Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.
• 1919

  Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
• 1951

  Ilse Koch, “The Witch of Buchenwald”, wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
• 1966

  The Nigerian First Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d’état.
• 1967

  The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10
• 1969

  The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
• 1991

  Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth Realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system.
• 2005

  An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system.

• 1432

  King Afonso V of Portugal (d. 1481)
• 1875

  Thomas Burke, American sprinter (d. 1929)
• 1878

  Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer and pedagogue (d. 1941)
• 1929

  Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1968)
• 1945

  William R. Higgins, USMC colonel (d. 1990)
• 1948

  Ronnie Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
• 1967

  Lisa Lisa, American R&B singer
• 1968

  Chad Lowe, American actor
• 1986

  Fred Davis, American football player
• 1990

  Robert Trznadel, Polish footballer

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