What Day of the Week

January 6, 2020 was the 6^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 360 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

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

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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

  Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
• 1449

  Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine-Roman Emperor at Mystras.
• 1579

  The Union of Arras is signed.
• 1690

  Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
• 1907

  Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
• 1912

  German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
• 1960

  National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami, Florida.
• 1967

  Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch “Operation Deckhouse Five” in the Mekong River delta.
• 1993

  Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
• 1994

  Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan.

• 1587

  Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (d. 1645)
• 1819

  Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (d. 1886)
• 1870

  Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944)
• 1898

  James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (d. 1965)
• 1903

  Francis L. Sullivan, English actor (d. 1956)
• 1912

  Danny Thomas, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1921

  Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (d. 1998)
• 1925

  John DeLorean, American auto maker (d. 2005)
• 1973

  Scott Ferguson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974

  Paul Grant, American basketball player

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