What day of the week was January 29, 2009?

The day of the week January 29th, 2009 fell on was a Thursday.

Hélio Gracie the Brazilian martial artist (b. 1913) died on this day in 2009. As did John Martyn the English-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948) .

The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government- recognised religions the while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents. Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges the including the alleged solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.