What Day of the Week

January 28, 2021 is the 28^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 337 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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

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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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• 1521

  The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
• 1573

  Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
• 1813

  Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
• 1855

  The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
• 1908

  Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
• 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.
• 1938

  The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 km/h.
• 1958

  The last episode of the British radio comedy programme Goon Show was broadcast.
• 1979

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
• 2011

  Hundreds of thousands of protesters filled up the Egyptian’s streets in demonstrations referred to as “Friday of Anger” against the Mubarak regime.

• 1886

  Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976)
• 1892

  Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)
• 1924

  Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter (d. 1976)
• 1925

  Scotty Bloch, American stage and television actress
• 1929

  Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist
• 1948

  Charles Taylor, former (22nd) President of Liberia
• 1969

  Kathryn Morris, American actress
• 1985

  Daniel Carcillo, Canadian hockey player
• 1990

  Kalifa Fai-Fai Loa, New Zealand rugby league footballer
• 1992

  Andrei Savchenko, Russian professional footballer

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