What Day of the Week

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

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

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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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• 1547

  Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
• 1724

  The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
• 1754

  Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
• 1851

  Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
• 1855

  The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
• 1878

  Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
• 1922

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
• 1935

  Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
• 2002

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

• 1600

  Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
• 1608

  Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
• 1717

  Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1774)
• 1886

  Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973)
• 1910

  John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)
• 1911

  Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician
• 1927

  Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
• 1945

  John Perkins, American author and activist
• 1974

  Tony Delk, American basketball player
• 1977

  Daunte Culpepper, American football player

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