Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Wednesday, January 21, 2026 falls on a Wednesday. It is day 21 of the year, ISO week 4, in Q1.

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Wednesday, January 21

January 21, 2026 is day 21 of 365, ISO week 4, in Q1. The moon is Waxing Crescent and the zodiac sign is Aquarius.

Day of year21
ISO week4
QuarterQ1
Days left344

Sun and Moon Cycles

Moon phase
Waxing Crescent
Lunar age
2.9 days
Illumination
9%
Season
Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, summer in the Southern Hemisphere

Zodiac and Holidays

Zodiac
Aquarius
Observances
No major fixed observance in the built-in calendar
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Today's Celebrations

January 21
Observance Babinden (Bulgaria, Serbia)
Observance Agnes
Observance Demiana (Coptic Church)
Observance Fructuosus
Observance John Yi Yun-il (one of The Korean Martyrs)
Observance Meinrad of Einsiedeln
Observance January 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Observance Errol Barrow Day (Barbados)

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Wednesday, January 21, 2026 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2025: A fire at a hotel at the Kartalkaya ski resort in Turkey's Bolu Province results in 78 people killed.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to January 21.

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History for January 21

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A fire at a hotel at the Kartalkaya ski resort in Turkey's Bolu Province results in 78 people killed.

Millions of people participated in the Women's March in Washington, D.C., and around the world to advocate for legislation and policies on human rights and other issues.

Demonstrations against alleged corruption in the Albanian government led to the killings of four protesters in Tirana by the Republican Guard.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.

The DeLorean Motor Company completed the first production car of the DMC DeLorean at its factory in Northern Ireland.

Concorde, an Anglo-French supersonic airliner, began scheduled commercial flights to London, Paris, Bahrain, and Rio de Janeiro.

Tripura, formerly part of the independent Twipra Kingdom, became a state of India.

A B-52 bomber carrying four nuclear weapons crashed onto sea ice near Thule Air Base, Greenland, causing localized radioactive contamination.

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