What Day of the Week

January 23, 2021 is the 23^rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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

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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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• 3102 BCE

  Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga.
• 1789

  Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
• 1793

  Second Partition of Poland: Russia and Prussia partition Poland for the second time.
• 1855

  The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
• 1879

  Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke’s Drift ends.
• 1899

  Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
• 1937

  In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin’s regime and assassinate its leaders.
• 1943

  World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression.
• 1973

  A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
• 2012

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dragon in Chinese astrology.

• 1783

  Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
• 1786

  Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
• 1881

  Luisa Casati, Artist’s patroness, muse and fashion icon (d. 1957)
• 1930

  Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel laureate
• 1944

  Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
• 1961

  Mas Selamat bin Kastari, Singapore’s most-wanted terror fugitive
• 1962

  Elvira Lindo, Spanish writer and journalist
• 1973

  Lanei Chapman, American actress
• 1973

  Tomas Holmström, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1987

  Felicia Brandström, Swedish singer

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