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Wednesday
January 21, 2026
12:01:01 PM (EST)

5:01:01 AM (UTC)
Absolute date: 739,637
Day 21 and Second 1,814,461 of current year
338 shopping days until Christmas

Phase of moon: waxing crescent
Age of moon: 3 days (since last new moon)

For Cleveland (EST)
Sun rise: 7:47 AM, set: 5:29 PM (today)
Sun rise: 7:47 AM, set: 5:30 PM (tomorrow)

Julian Day
2,461,061.71

Julian Calendar
January 08, 2026

ISO Calendar
Day 03 of Week 04 of Year 2026

World Calendar
Saturday, January 21, 2026

Hebrew Calendar
3 Shevat 5786

Islamic Calendar
Rajab 32, 1447

Mayan Calendars
Long Count: 13.0.13.4.19
Haab (Civil): 17 Muan
Tzolkin (Religious): 12 Cauac

French Revolutionary
Time: 0:00:71
Décade I, Doudi de Pluviôse de l'Année 234 de la Révolution

Coptic
Tubah 13, 1742

Ethiopic
Ter 13, 2018

Persian
Bahman 01, 1404

Baha'i
3rd day of Sovereignty, B.E. 182

Events for 01/21

Births
Ethan Allen (288 years ago)
John C Fremont (213 years ago)
Horace Wells (pioneer in use of medical anethesia) (211 years ago)
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (202 years ago)
John M Browning (171 years ago)
Christian Dior (121 years ago)
Telly Savalas (102 years ago)
Benny Hill (101 years ago)
Placido Domingo (85 years ago)
Wolfman Jack (77 years ago)

Deaths
Joseph Scaliger (417 years ago)
Louis XVI (beheaded) (233 years ago)
Vladimir Ilich Lenin (102 years ago)
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) (76 years ago)
Cecil B De Mille (67 years ago)

Events
1st Kiwanis Club founded (Detroit) (111 years ago)
1st BBC broadcast from London (96 years ago)
Wilderness Society formed (91 years ago)
USS Nautilus, 1st nuclear sub, christened (72 years ago)
Most Vietnam War draft dodgers pardoned (by Carter) (49 years ago)

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