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July 15: Day Of The Week

July 15, 2013 is the 196^th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 169 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Getsuyōbi.

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Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

July 15 Historical Events

• 1149 –
  The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
• 1815 –
  Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
• 1870 –
  Rupert’s Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.
• 1920 –
  The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
• 1927 –
  Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
• 1954 –
  First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
• 1966 –
  Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
• 1975 –
  Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
• 1979 –
  U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called “malaise” speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as “this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation” but in which he never uses the word malaise
• 2002 –
  “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.

Who were born on July 15?

• 1779 –
  Clement Clarke Moore, American educator, author, and poet (d. 1863)
• 1903 –
  Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian politician (d. 1975)
• 1906 –
  Rudolf Uhlenhaut, England-born German automotive engineer and test driver (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1989)
• 1919 –
  Iris Murdoch, Irish philosopher (d. 1999)
• 1927 –
  Nan Martin, American actress (d. 2010)
• 1950 –
  Colin Barnett, Australian politician
• 1965 –
  David Miliband, British politician
• 1972 –
  Scott Foley, American actor
• 1974 –
  Chot Ulep, Filipino bassist and songwriter
• 1981 –
  Marius Stankevičius, Lithuanian footballer

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