What Day of the Week

January 15, 2020 was the 15^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 351 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

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

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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.
• 1493

  Christopher Columbus sets sail for Spain from Hispaniola, ending his first voyage to the New World.
• 1559

  Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London.
• 1844

  University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
• 1870

  A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey (“A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” by Thomas Nast for Harper’s Weekly).
• 1967

  The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10
• 1977

  The Kälvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweden’s history.
• 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

  ESA’s SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
• 2007

  Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.

• 1674

  Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762)
• 1803

  Marjory Fleming, Scottish writer and poet (d. 1811)
• 1913

  Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (d. 2005)
• 1920

  John Joseph O'Connor, American Catholic cardinal (d. 2000)
• 1923

  Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (d. 2006)
• 1931

  Lee Bontecou, American artist
• 1953

  Kent Hovind, American evangelist
• 1959

  Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian climber (d. 2008)
• 1980

  Matt Holliday, American baseball player
• 1982

  Brett Lebda, American hockey player

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