What Day of the Week

January 22, 2021 is the 22^nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 343 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

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

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Here’s the January calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Aquarius 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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• 565

  Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
• 1506

  The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
• 1521

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, opens the Diet of Worms.
• 1905

  Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
• 1915

  Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
• 1947

  KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
• 1947

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
• 1984

  The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous “1984” television commercial.
• 1987

  Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
• 1992

  Rebel forces occupy Zaire’s national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government’s resignation.

• 1263

  Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar (d. 1328)
• 1831

  Jack Slade, American frontier figure (d. 1864)
• 1890

  Fred M. Vinson, 13th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953)
• 1918

  Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1954

  Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
• 1955

  Timothy R. Ferguson, American politician
• 1962

  Eric Schaeffer, American actor and director
• 1972

  Gonzalo Rodríguez, Uruguayan racing driver (d. 1999)
• 1980

  Subhash Ram Prajapati, Nepalese writer
• 1987

  Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian cross-country skier

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