What Day of the Week

January 2, 2020 was the 2^nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 364 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is jueves.

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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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• 1492

  Reconquista: the emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders
• 1818

  The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded
• 1935

  Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh
• 1949

  Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico
• 1959

  Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union
• 1971

  The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match
• 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
• 2001

  Sila María Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico
• 2006

  An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, while leaving one miner in critical condition.

• 1727

  James Wolfe, British general (d. 1759)
• 1827

  Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)
• 1909

  Barry M. Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
• 1949

  Leijn Loevesijn, Dutch cyclist
• 1953

  Jacques Tichelaar, a Dutch politician and trade union leader
• 1953

  Vincent Racaniello American virologist
• 1961

  Craig James, American football player
• 1969

  Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian politician
• 1981

  Ryan Garko, American baseball player
• 1983

  Kate Bosworth, American actress

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