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 Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is lunes.

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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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• 1754

  Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
• 1871

  Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
• 1935

  Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
• 1941

  French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
• 1945

  World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
• 1958

  The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
• 1980

  USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
• 1985

  Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
• 2002

  TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
• 2017

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rooster in Chinese astrology.

• 1833

  Charles George ‘Chinese’Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d. 1885)
• 1927

  Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (d. 2010)
• 1927

  Ronnie Scott, British tenor saxophonist and club owner (d. 1996)
• 1930

  Kurt Biedenkopf, German politician
• 1947

  Jeanne Shaheen, American politician, senior senator of New Hampshire
• 1950

  Barbi Benton, American actress
• 1954

  Rick Warren, American pastor and author
• 1962

  Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor
• 1969

  Mo Rocca, American writer and comedian
• 1987

  Chelsea Brummet, American actress

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