What Day Of The Week Was January 8?

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Thursday January 8, 2026
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January 8: Day of the Week

January 8, 2026 was the 8th day of the year 2026 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 French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.

Here’s the January calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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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January 8 by the Numbers

  • 34 days since January 8
  • 0 year, 1 month, and 3 days ago
  • 1 month since then
  • January 8 is in the 2nd week of the year 2026 (ISO 8601)
  • 4 weeks ago
  • The year 2026 is not a leap year

January 8 Historical Event(s)

871Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings. 1734Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel’s Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. 1780An earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.7 hits the city of Tabriz, Iran, killing about 80,000 people and causing major damage. 1889Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’— his punched card calculator. 1918President Woodrow Wilson announces his “Fourteen Points” for the aftermath of World War I. 1940World War II: Britain introduces food rationing. 1973Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins. 1981A 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”. 1982The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. 2005The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.

Who were born on January 8?

1897Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977) 1924Benjamin Lees, American composer (d. 2010) 1926Evelyn Lear, American soprano 1939Carolina Herrera, Venezuelan fashion designer 1945Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-born American radio host 1955Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer 1967R. Kelly, American singer 1968Keith Mullings, American boxer 1970Rachel Friend, Australian actress 1986Maria Ozawa, Japanese/French-Canadian pornstar

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