What Day of the Week

January 8, 2021 was the 8^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 357 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

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

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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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• 1734

  Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel’s Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
• 1746

  Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
• 1867

  African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
• 1906

  A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
• 1920

  The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
• 1940

  World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
• 1962

  The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
• 1979

  The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
• 1982

  The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
• 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.

• 1786

  Nicholas Biddle, American banking executive (d. 1844)
• 1928

  Slade Gorton, American politician
• 1936

  Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-born British scientist
• 1957

  David Lang, American composer
• 1959

  Duk Koo Kim, Korean boxer (d. 1982)
• 1969

  Jeff Abercrombie, American musician
• 1977

  Lee Yoo-jin, Korean actress
• 1977

  Melanie Seeger, German race walker
• 1986

  David Silva, Spanish footballer
• 1988

  Allison Harvard, American artist and fashion model

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