What day of the week was January 16, 1919?

The day of the week January 16th, 1919 fell on was a Thursday.

Jerome Horwitz the American scientist and academic (d. 2012) was born on 16 January in 1919.

Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves the Brazilian politician, 5th President of Brazil (b. 1848) died on this day in 1919.

Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution the authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.