What Day of the Week

January 19, 2020 was the 19^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 347 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

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

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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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• 1764

  John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
• 1788

  The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.
• 1861

  American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
• 1862

  American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
• 1893

  Henrik Ibsen’s play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
• 1942

  World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma
• 1949

  Cuba recognizes Israel.
• 1977

  Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in the Bahamas.
• 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.
• 2007

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

• 1757

  Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831)
• 1912

  Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 1948

  Frank McKenna, Canadian politician
• 1961

  William Ragsdale, American actor
• 1969

  Casey Sherman, American author
• 1969

  Predrag Mijatović, Yugoslavian footballer
• 1972

  Drea de Matteo, American actress
• 1975

  Noah Georgeson, American musician
• 1977

  Nicole, Chilean singer
• 1986

  Loren Galler-Rabinowitz, American ice dancer

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