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 Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Mokuyōbi.

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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.
• 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.
• 1806

  Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul’s Cathedral.
• 1861

  Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
• 1880

  The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
• 1894

  New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• 1903

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

• 1879

  John Broadus Watson, American psychologist (d. 1958)
• 1921

  Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
• 1925

  Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1935

  Earl G. Graves, Sr., African-American publisher
• 1944

  Ian Hornak, American painter, draughtsman and sculptor (d. 2002)
• 1957

  Bibie, Ghanaian singer
• 1965

  Muggsy Bogues, American basketball player
• 1967

  Dave Matthews, South African singer and musician
• 1971

  Angie Martinez, American rapper and radio talk host
• 1982

  Timmy Bowers, American basketball player

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