What Day of the Week

January 15, 2018 was the 15^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 350 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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• 588 BC

  Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah’s reign. The siege lasts until July 23, 586 BC.
• 1822

  Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly.
• 1844

  University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
• 1865

  American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
• 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).
• 1908

  The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African-American college women.
• 1910

  Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, US, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft.
• 1936

  The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
• 1947

  The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (“The Black Dahlia”) is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
• 1969

  The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.

• 1671

  Abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian (d. 1704)
• 1863

  Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946)
• 1890

  Tommy Fleming, American soccer player (d. 1965)
• 1913

  Alexander Marinesko, captain of the S-13 submarined. 1963)
• 1953

  Kent Hovind, American evangelist
• 1954

  Nikos Sarganis, Greek footballer
• 1964

  Osmo Tapio Räihälä, Finnish composer
• 1965

  Adam Jones, American musician (Tool)
• 1971

  Regina King, American actress
• 1974

  Tim Shaw, British radio DJ and television presenter

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