What Day of the Week

January 9, 2018 was the 9^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 356 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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• 1431

  Judges’ investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.
• 1760

  Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
• 1793

  Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
• 1863

  American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas.
• 1903

  Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
• 1905

  According to the Julian Calendar which is used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
• 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.
• 1914

  Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University is founded.
• 1927

  A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, kills 78 children.
• 1992

  The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.

• 1881

  Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)
• 1940

  Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
• 1942

  Lee Kun-hee, Korean industrialist, chairman of Samsung
• 1943

  Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer
• 1944

  Jimmy Page, British musician and producer (Led Zeppelin)
• 1945

  John Doman, American actor
• 1951

  Crystal Gayle, American singer
• 1958

  Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
• 1989

  Chris Sandow, Australian Rugby League player
• 1989

  Michael Beasley, American basketball player

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