What Day of the Week

January 5, 2019 was the 5^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 360 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

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

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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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• 1066

  Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England.
• 1527

  Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zurich, Switzerland, is executed by drowning.
• 1675

  Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
• 1759

  George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
• 1895

  Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island.
• 1912

  The Prague Party Conference takes place.
• 1940

  FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time.
• 1945

  The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
• 1974

  An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
• 1996

  Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.

• 1895

  Jeannette Piccard, American priest, and aeronaut (d. 1981)
• 1917

  Wieland Wagner, German stage director (d. 1966)
• 1919

  Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist (d. 1992)
• 1929

  Wilbert Harrison, American singer (d. 1994)
• 1941

  Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer (d. 2011)
• 1958

  Nancy Delahunt, Canadian athlete
• 1962

  Danny Jackson, American baseball player
• 1983

  Sean Dockery, American basketball player
• 1986

  Deepika Padukone, Indian model and actress
• 1987

  Kristin Cavallari, American actress

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