What Day of the Week

January 3, 2019 was the 3^rd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 362 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.

Capricorn 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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• 1749

  The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark’s oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
• 1868

  Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
• 1945

  World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.
• 1949

  The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
• 1953

  Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
• 1961

  The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, underwent a core explosion and meltdown, killing three workers.
• 1993

  In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
• 1994

  More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receive South African citizenship.
• 1996

  The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
• 1997

  China announces it will spend US$27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.

• 106 BC

  Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
• 1885

  Harry Elkins Widener, American book collector and victim of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1912)
• 1894

  ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)
• 1930

  Robert Loggia, American actor
• 1932

  Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (d. 2005)
• 1964

  Bruce LaBruce, Canadian filmmaker
• 1972

  Yoon Chan, South Korean actor
• 1973

  Dan Harmon, American writer and producer
• 1975

  Danica McKellar, American actress
• 1986

  Lloyd Polite, American R&B singer

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