What Day of the Week

January 7, 2020 was the 7^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 359 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

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

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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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• 1610

  Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able distinguish the last two until the following day.
• 1797

  The modern Italian flag is first used.
• 1904

  The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS”.
• 1919

  Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
• 1931

  Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand’s west coast.
• 1948

  Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
• 1952

  President Harry S. Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
• 1973

  Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson’s Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
• 1993

  Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
• 1999

  The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.

• 1891

  Zora Neale Hurston, African-American writer (d. 1960)
• 1911

  Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1941

  John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943

  Richard Armstrong, British conductor
• 1949

  Marshall Chapman, American singer-songwriter
• 1956

  David Caruso, American actor
• 1963

  Rand Paul, American politician, Junior Senator from Kentucky
• 1977

  Michelle Behennah, British model
• 1989

  Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
• 1990

  Liam Aiken, American actor

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