What Day of the Week

January 17, 2019 was the 17^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 348 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Mokuyōbi.

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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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• 38 BC

  Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
• 1287

  King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca.
• 1773

  Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
• 1852

  The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
• 1941

  Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive victory over the Royal Thai Navy.
• 1949

  The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, first airs.
• 1994

  1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
• 1995

  The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
• 2002

  Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
• 2007

  The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.

• 1666

  Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (d. 1723)
• 1850

  Aleksandr Taneyev, Russian composer (d. 1918)
• 1863

  David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister (d. 1945)
• 1901

  Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-born philosopher (d. 1973)
• 1905

  Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2007)
• 1917

  M. G. Ramachandran, Indian politician, actor (d. 1987)
• 1933

  Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-born Pakistani diplomat (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) (d. 2003)
• 1950

  Luis López Nieves, Latin American writer
• 1956

  Paul Young, English musician
• 1957

  Ann Nocenti, American comic book writer

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