What Day of the Week

January 8, 2018 was the 8^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 357 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

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

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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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• 871

  Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
• 1790

  George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
• 1867

  African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
• 1904

  The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
• 1918

  President Woodrow Wilson announces his “Fourteen Points” for the aftermath of World War I.
• 1964

  President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a “War on Poverty” in the United States.
• 1979

  The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
• 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”.
• 1994

  Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
• 2002

  President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.

• 1821

  W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general (d. 1862)
• 1924

  Ron Moody, English actor
• 1926

  Soupy Sales, American comedian (d. 2009)
• 1938

  Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian bass-baritone
• 1952

  Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist
• 1955

  Mike Reno, Canadian musician
• 1979

  Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer
• 1982

  Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
• 1983

  Chris Mordetzky, American wrestler
• 1988

  Michael Mancienne, English footballer

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