What Day of the Week

January 9, 2021 was the 9^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 356 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

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

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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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• 475

  Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
• 1349

  The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated.
• 1816

  Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
• 1861

  Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
• 1894

  New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• 1909

  Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nmi from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
• 1917

  World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
• 1923

  Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebelled against the League of Nations decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
• 1996

  First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighbouring Republic of Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
• 2004

  An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28.

• 1859

  Carrie Chapman Catt, American suffragist leader (d. 1947)
• 1890

  Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
• 1900

  Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
• 1916

  Vic Mizzy, American orchestra leader (d. 2009)
• 1920

  Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician (d. 1999)
• 1933

  Robert Garcia, American politician
• 1961

  Oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter
• 1982

  Timmy Bowers, American basketball player
• 1986

  Amanda Mynhardt, South African netballer
• 1989

  Chris Sandow, Australian Rugby League player

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