July 20: Day Of The Week
July 20, 2013 is the 201st day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 164 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.
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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
| July | ||||||
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| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |||
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 20 Historical Events
- 1402 –Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara – Timur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I.
- 1871 –British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
- 1941 –Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief.
- 1949 –Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war.
- 1960 –The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
- 1961 –French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
- 1976 –The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
- 1980 –The United Nations Security Council votes 14-0 that member states should not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
- 1985 –The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
- 1999 –Falun Gong is banned in the People’s Republic of China, and a large scale crackdown of the practice is launched.
Who were born on July 20?
- 1797 –Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873)
- 1838 –Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899)
- 1838 –George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
- 1924 –Thomas Berger, American novelist
- 1925 –Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (d. 1961)
- 1943 –Dennis Yost, lead singer of the Classics IV (d. 2008)
- 1943 –Wendy Richard, English actress (d. 2009)
- 1953 –Dan Shaughnessy, American sports writer
- 1953 –Marcia Hines, American-born Australian singer
- 1959 –Radney Foster, Texas country music singer/songwriter
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