What Day of the Week

January 9, 2020 was the 9^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 357 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

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

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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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• 1127

  Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin Dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song Dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty.
• 1839

  The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
• 1861

  Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
• 1878

  Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
• 1880

  The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
• 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.
• 1921

  Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, began near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
• 1947

  Elizabeth “Betty” Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
• 1965

  The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).

• 1685

  Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (d. 1766)
• 1839

  John Knowles Paine, American composer (d. 1906)
• 1900

  Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
• 1901

  Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
• 1903

  Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969)
• 1909

  Anthony Mamo, Malta’s 1st President (d. 2008)
• 1934

  Bart Starr, American football player
• 1959

  Otis Nixon, American baseball player
• 1966

  Jan Johansen, Swedish singer
• 1976

  Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer

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