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Monday, January 19, 2026
Monday, January 19, 2026 falls on a Monday. It is day 19 of the year, ISO week 4, in Q1.
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Monday, January 19
January 19, 2026 is day 19 of 365, ISO week 4, in Q1. The moon is New Moon and the zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Day of year19
ISO week4
QuarterQ1
Days left346
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- New Moon
- Lunar age
- 0.9 days
- Illumination
- 1%
- Season
- Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, summer in the Southern Hemisphere
Zodiac and Holidays
- Zodiac
- Capricorn
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- No major fixed observance in the built-in calendar
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- /date/2026-01-19
Today's Celebrations
January 19
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Bassianus of Lodi
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Faustina and Liberata of Como
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Henry of Uppsala
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Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum
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Mark of Ephesus (Eastern Orthodox Church)
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Pontianus of Spoleto
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Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester
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January 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Local briefMonday, January 19, 2026 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2012: The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to January 19.
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History for January 19
The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI.
Turkish-Armenian journalist and human-rights activist Hrant Dink was assassinated by a Turkish nationalist in Istanbul.
A four-man team, using only skis and kites, completed a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, the first people to get there since 1967, and the first to do so on foot.
In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an Antonov An-24 operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in northern Hungary, killing 42 of the 43 people on board.
A tank barge and a tug grounded on a beach in Rhode Island, causing a spill of an estimated 828,000 U.S. gallons (3.13 million litres) of home heating oil.
Iva Toguri (pictured), convicted of treason for broadcasting Japanese propaganda, was granted a full pardon by U.S. president Gerald Ford.
An earthquake registering 6.8 Ms struck northern Himachal Pradesh in India, causing extensive damage to the region.
The French newspaper L'Aurore revealed that the former Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon", had been found to be living in Peru.
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Valentino, Italian fashion designer, founder of Valentino (born 1932)
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Jeff Torborg, American baseball player and manager (born 1941)
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Miguel Ferrer, American actor (born 1955)
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Richard Levins, American ecologist and geneticist (born 1930)
2016
Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1931)
2016
Sheila Sim (Lady Attenborough), English actress (born 1922)
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Italian fashion designer Valentino, founder of his eponymous fashion house, dies at the age of 93. (CBS News)
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