What Day of the Week

January 25, 2019 was the 25^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 340 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was 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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• 1554

  Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
• 1573

  Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
• 1787

  American Daniel Shays leads a rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor’s prisons.
• 1960

  The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
• 1971

  Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda’s president.
• 1982

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
• 1993

  Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
• 1995

  The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
• 2005

  A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.
• 2006

  Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.

• 1822

  Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1915)
• 1882

  Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
• 1921

  Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist (d. 2010)
• 1935

  Conrad Burns, American politician
• 1938

  Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese anime author
• 1945

  John Leslie, American pornographic actor and filmmaker (d. 2010)
• 1950

  John Terry, American actor
• 1954

  Kay Cottee, Australian maritime sailor
• 1971

  Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver
• 1983

  Andrée Watters, Canadian singer

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