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

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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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• 1558

  France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
• 1608

  Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
• 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.
• 1894

  William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
• 1920

  The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
• 1935

  Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
• 1948

  Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
• 1959

  The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
• 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.
• 1985

  Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan’s first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.

• 1916

  Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
• 1943

  Richard Armstrong, British conductor
• 1943

  Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955)
• 1946

  Michael Roizen, American anesthesiologist, internist and author
• 1949

  Marshall Chapman, American singer-songwriter
• 1956

  Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957

  Nicholson Baker, American novelist
• 1972

  Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player
• 1974

  John Rich, American musician (Big & Rich)
• 1982

  Ianina Zanazzi, Argentine racing driver

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