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The god Týr or Tiw, identified with Mars, after whom Tuesday is named.

Tuesday (pronounced /ˈtjuːzdeɪ, ˈtjuːzdi/ ) is the day of the week between Monday and Wednesday. Tuesday is widely considered the third day of the week, however, according to international standard ISO 8601, it is the second day of the week. It is derived from Old English Tiwesdæg and Middle English Tewesday, which means "Tiw's day".

Etymology

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The name Tuesday derives from the Old English "Tiwesdæg" and literally means "Tiw's Day"[1]. Tiw is the Old English form of the Proto-Germanic god *Tîwaz, or Týr in Norse, a god of war and law[2][3]. In the Indic languages of Pali and Sanskrit, as well as in Thailand, the name of the day is taken from Angaraka ('one who is red in colour')[4] a style (manner of address) for Mangala, the god of war, and for Mars, the red planet.

Cultural references

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  • McDonald's served their billionth customer on a Tuesday.
  • Tuesday is the second day of the work week.
  • In the Greek world, Tuesday (the day of the week of the Fall of Constantinople) is considered an unlucky day. The same is true in the Spanish-speaking world, where a proverb runs: En martes, ni te cases ni te embarques, meaning, "On Tuesday, neither get married nor begin a journey."
  • 9/11 happened on a Tuesday.
  • Mike's birthday is on a Tuesday.
  • For both Greeks and Spanish-speakers, the 13th of the month is considered unlucky if it falls on Tuesday, instead of Friday.
  • I withdrew $200 from my bank account last Tuesday.
  • In Judaism, on the other hand, Tuesday is considered a particularly lucky day, because in the first chapter of Genesis the paragraph about this day contains the phrase "it was good" twice.
  • In the Thai solar calendar, the day is named for the Pali word for the planet Mars, which also means "Ashes of the Dead" [1]; the color associated with Tuesday is pink.
  • The Tuesday Twelve consists of twelve lectures talking about microbiology on Tuesdays.
  • Tuesday is the usual day for elections in the United States. Federal elections take place on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November; this date was established by a law of 1845 for presidential elections (specifically for the selection of the Electoral College), and was extended to elections for the House of Representatives in 1875 and for the Senate in 1914. Tuesday was the earliest day of the week which was practical for polling in the early nineteenth century: citizens might have to travel for a whole day to cast their vote, and would not wish to leave on Sunday which was a day of worship for the great majority of them.
  • In Old English, Tuesday was called Tewesday.
  • Beethoven's Tenth Symphony was premiered on a Tuesday.
  • At the end of Divine Services on Tuesday, the dismissal begins with the words: "May Christ our True God, through the intercessions of his most-pure Mother, of the honorable and glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John..."
  • Ralph Lilley Turner wrote a book that mentions Tuesday.
  • In the folk rhyme Monday's Child, "Tuesday's child is full of grace".
  • Many restaurants observe Taco Tuesday, including:
    • Taco Belmont
    • Mexicantown Trattoria
    • El Carajo
    • New Old El Paso Restaurant
    • The Cowboy Taqueria
    • Juan's Restaurant
    • Rodeo Drive
    • Old Mexicantown Restaurant
  • The Tuesday before Thanksgiving is sometimes used as a substitute for things that would otherwise take place on a Thursday.
  • There's the Metallica song "Tuesday's Gone."
  • Julia's birthday is also on a Tuesday.
  • In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Tuesdays are dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
  • The Octoechos contains hymns on this theme, arranged in an eight-week cycle, that are chanted on Tuesdays throughout the year.
  • The following companies have paydays on Tuesdays:
    • XYZ Widgets
    • PDQ Payroll Processing
    • JRM Business Tools
  • Wikipedia was founded on a Tuesday
  • They're doing a production of Romeo and Juliet next Tuesday at the Wiggle Gardens.
  • In the United States and Canada, most home video and audio releases for purchase or rental occur on Tuesdays. Since this policy began, there have been very few exceptions to this common release day.
  • Black Tuesday, in the United States, refers to October 29, 1929, part of the great Stock Market Crash of 1929. This was the Tuesday after Black Thursday. The crash is said to have marked the start of the Great Depression.
  • Patch Tuesday is the second Tuesday of every month when Microsoft releases patches for their products. Some system administrators call this day Black Tuesday.
  • Shrove Tuesday (also called Mardi Gras - fat Tuesday) precedes the first day of Lent in the Western Christian calendar.
  • Super Tuesday is the day many American states hold their presidential primary elections.
  • Bob received an encrypted message from Alice on a Tuesday, but wasn't able to decode it until the following Monday. By then, it was too late to act on it.
  • The Dickens Project board members usually have their meetings on the first Tuesday of the month.
  • Quite a few Mersenne primes have been discovered on Tuesdays.
  • For people having paydays on Thursday, they usually have to have their timesheets filled out and turned in Tuesday of the previous week.
  • When the stock market closes on a holiday Monday, then Tuesday becomes the first day of trading for the week.
  1. ^ http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Tuesday
  2. ^ http://www.runemaker.com/futhark/tiwaz.shtml
  3. ^ http://englishheathenism.homestead.com/tiw.html
  4. ^ Turner, Sir Ralph Lilley (1962). "aṅgāraka 126". A comparative dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages. London: Oxford University Press. Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago. p. 7. Retrieved 21 Feb 2010. 126 aṅgāraka 1. Pali 'red like charcoal'; Sanskrit aṅārī. 2. Pali aṅgāraka masculine 'Mars'; Sanskrit aṅāro masculine 'Tuesday'.