What Day of the Week

January 8, 2019 was the 8^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 357 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mardi.

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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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• 1815

  War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
• 1863

  American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
• 1867

  African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
• 1877

  Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
• 1906

  A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
• 1973

  Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
• 1975

  Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
• 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”.
• 2003

  Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.

• 1735

  John Carroll, American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)
• 1763

  Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat (d. 1834)
• 1823

  Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)
• 1865

  Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac, an American patron of French music, and of the arts, sciences, and letters (d. 1943)
• 1881

  Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
• 1888

  Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972)
• 1923

  Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
• 1943

  Charles Murray, American author and pundit
• 1981

  Carmen Schäfer, Swiss curler
• 1986

  Jessica Parker Kennedy, Canadian actress

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