What Day of the Week

January 18, 2019 was the 18^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 347 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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• 1871

  Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles ( France ) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire is known as the Second Reich to Germans.
• 1916

  A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
• 1919

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
• 1943

  Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
• 1944

  The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
• 1960

  Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
• 1967

  Albert DeSalvo, the “Boston Strangler”, is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
• 1993

  Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
• 1997

  In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
• 2000

  The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.

• 1743

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin French philosopher, known as le philosophe inconnu. (d. 1803)
• 1840

  Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (d. 1921)
• 1841

  Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (d. 1894)
• 1918

  Gustave Gingras, French Canadian physician (d. 1996)
• 1935

  Albert Millaire, Quebec actor and theatre director
• 1947

  Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
• 1953

  Brett Hudson, American musician
• 1964

  Andrea Leand, American tennis player
• 1976

  Damien Leith, Irish-born Australian singer, winner of Australian Idol 2006
• 1993

  Morgan York, American actress

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