What Day of the Week

January 8, 2020 was the 8^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 358 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

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

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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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• 1297

  François Grimaldi, disguised as monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
• 1499

  Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
• 1746

  Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
• 1811

  An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
• 1918

  President Woodrow Wilson announces his “Fourteen Points” for the aftermath of World War I.
• 1956

  Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
• 1963

  Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
• 1981

  A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be “perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time”.
• 1989

  Beginning of Japanese Heisei period.
• 2005

  The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.

• 1823

  Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)
• 1862

  Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)
• 1897

  Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)
• 1912

  José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
• 1933

  Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator
• 1945

  Jeannie Lewis, Australian actress and singer
• 1967

  Torsten Gowitzke, German footballer
• 1970

  Rachel Friend, Australian actress
• 1972

  Sean McKeever, American writer
• 1979

  Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer

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