What Day of the Week

January 19, 2023 was the 19^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 346 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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• 1607

  San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
• 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.
• 1829

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance.
• 1861

  American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
• 1871

  Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
• 1917

  Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
• 1942

  World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma
• 1946

  General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
• 1978

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

• 1813

  Sir Henry Bessemer, English inventor (d. 1898)
• 1912

  Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 1937

  John Lions, Australian computer scientist (d. 1998)
• 1944

  Shelley Fabares, American actress
• 1948

  Frank McKenna, Canadian politician
• 1972

  Princess Kalina of Bulgaria
• 1973

  Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist
• 1974

  Ian Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981

  Dimosthenis Manousakis, Greek footballer
• 1983

  Hikaru Utada, American/Japanese singer and songwriter

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