What Day of the Week

January 8, 2023 was the 8^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 357 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

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

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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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• 307

  Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by his son Jin Huaidi.
• 1734

  Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel’s Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
• 1780

  An earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.7 hits the city of Tabriz, Iran, killing about 80,000 people and causing major damage.
• 1806

  Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
• 1863

  American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
• 1867

  African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
• 1956

  Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
• 1979

  The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
• 1996

  An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.
• 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.

• 1556

  Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
• 1871

  James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)
• 1883

  Patrick J. Hurley, American soldier, statesman, and diplomat; 51st United States Secretary of War and former United States Ambassador to the Republic of China (d. 1963)
• 1909

  Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1936 (d.1995)
• 1923

  Larry Storch, American actor
• 1939

  Carolina Herrera, Venezuelan fashion designer
• 1952

  Mel Reynolds, former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois and convicted sex offender
• 1967

  Willie Anderson, American basketball player
• 1976

  Carl Pavano, American baseball player
• 1987

  Carmen Klaschka, German tennis player

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