What Day of the Week

January 17, 2020 was the 17^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 349 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

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

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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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• 395

  Emperor Theodosius I dies at Milan, the Roman Empire is re-divided into an eastern and a western half. The Eastern Roman Empire is centered in Constantinople under Arcadius, son of Theodosius, and the Western Roman Empire in Mediolanum under Honorius, his brother, at the age of 10.
• 1377

  Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
• 1799

  Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
• 1885

  A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
• 1944

  World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four battles with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
• 1945

  Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
• 1966

  A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares incident.
• 1977

  Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on Capital punishment in the United States.
• 1991

  Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
• 1997

  A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.

• 1501

  Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566)
• 1761

  James Hall, Scottish geologist (d. 1832)
• 1860

  Douglas Hyde, Irish President of Ireland (d. 1949)
• 1876

  Frank Hague, American politician (d. 1956)
• 1882

  Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (d. 1946)
• 1907

  Henk Badings, Dutch composer (d. 1987)
• 1914

  William Stafford, American poet and essayist (d. 1993)
• 1942

  Muhammad Ali, American boxer
• 1949

  Mick Taylor, British musician (The Rolling Stones)
• 1966

  Joshua Malina, American actor

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