What Day of the Week

January 19, 2019 was the 19^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 346 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is samedi.

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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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• 1419

  Hundred Years’ War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.
• 1788

  The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.
• 1817

  An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
• 1883

  The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
• 1953

  68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
• 1969

  Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague’s Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest.
• 1978

  The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW’s plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003.
• 1983

  The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
• 1996

  The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
• 2007

  Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper’s office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast.

• 1808

  Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
• 1932

  Russ Hamilton, British singer (d. 2008)
• 1937

  Giovanna Marini, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1957

  Ottis Anderson, former American football player
• 1969

  Edwidge Danticat, Haitian/American author
• 1972

  Elena Kaliská, Slovak slalom canoer
• 1977

  Lauren Etame Mayer, Cameroonian footballer
• 1984

  Jimmy Kebe, Malian footballer
• 1992

  Mac Miller, American rapper
• 1993

  Gus Lewis, English actor

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