What Day of the Week

January 28, 2020 was the 28^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 338 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

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

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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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• 1624

  Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
• 1851

  Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
• 1871

  Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
• 1878

  Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
• 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.
• 1934

  The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
• 1965

  The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
• 1979

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
• 2002

  TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.

• 1622

  Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)
• 1853

  José Martí, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)
• 1892

  Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)
• 1903

  Aleksander Kamiński, Polish writer (d. 1978)
• 1915

  Nien Cheng, Chinese-born American writer (d. 2009)
• 1934

  Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990)
• 1935

  David Lodge, English author
• 1951

  Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut
• 1975

  Tanya Chua, Singaporean singer
• 1977

  Takuma Sato, Japanese racing driver

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