What Day of the Week

January 28, 2019 was the 28^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 337 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Getsuyōbi.

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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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• 1573

  Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
• 1820

  A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
• 1855

  The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
• 1915

  An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
• 1922

  Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city’s greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.
• 1922

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
• 1941

  French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
• 1964

  An unarmed USAF T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
• 1986

  Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
• 2006

  The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów / Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.

• 1225

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)
• 1897

  Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986)
• 1909

  John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931)
• 1910

  John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)
• 1949

  Gregg Popovich, American basketball coach
• 1955

  Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
• 1957

  Frank Skinner, British comedian
• 1959

  Frank Darabont, American filmmaker
• 1971

  Anthony Hamilton, American soul singer
• 1978

  Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer

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