Friday January 19, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

January 19: Day of the Week

January 19, 2024 was the 19th day of the year 2024 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.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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.

January 19 Historical Event(s)

1520
Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
1795
The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
1812
Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
1840
Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
1861
American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
1942
World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma
1960
Japan and the United States sign the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
1983
Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
1986
The first computer virus released into the wild is a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
1997
Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.

Who were born on January 19?

1848
John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904)
1876
Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (d. 1943)
1913
Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
1944
Laurie London, English singer
1957
Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician
1969
Casey Sherman, American author
1972
Elena Kaliská, Slovak slalom canoer
1979
Wiley, English rapper
1984
Jimmy Kebe, Malian footballer
1984
Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player

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