What Day of the Week

January 2, 2019 was the 2^nd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 363 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

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

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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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• 1788

  Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution
• 1871

  Amadeus I becomes King of Spain
• 1900

  John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China
• 1920

  The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities.
• 1945

  World War II: Nuremberg, Germany (in German, Nürnberg) is severely bombed by Allied forces
• 1955

  Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated
• 1959

  Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union
• 1992

  Leaders of armed opposition declare the President Zviad Gamsakhurdia deposed during a military coup in Georgia.
• 1999

  A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, Illinois, where temperatures plunge to -13 °F (-25 °C); 68 deaths are reported
• 2004

  Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.

• 1727

  James Wolfe, British general (d. 1759)
• 1777

  Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
• 1836

  Queen Emma of Hawaii, Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885)
• 1870

  Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (d. 1938)
• 1938

  Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author
• 1940

  S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
• 1944

  Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor
• 1977

  Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player
• 1987

  Shelley Hennig, American actress
• 2001

  Christopher Barrios Jr., American murder victim (d. 2007)

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