July 21: Day Of The Week
July 21, 2013 is the 202nd day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 163 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is dimanche.
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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 21 Historical Events
- 1403 –Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
- 1774 –Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
- 1865 –In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
- 1877 –After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
- 1918 –SMU U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
- 1944 –World War II: Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
- 1961 –Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission – Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
- 1970 –After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
- 1995 –Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People’s Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
- 2005 –Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London’s public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.
Who were born on July 21?
- 1620 –Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)
- 1911 –Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and media theorist (d. 1980)
- 1932 –Ernie Warlick, American football player
- 1939 –John Negroponte, 1st United States Director of National Intelligence
- 1970 –Shawn Stasiak, American professional wrestler
- 1975 –Chris Bisson, British actor
- 1981 –Stefan Schumacher, German cyclist
- 1985 –Paloma Faith, British singer
- 1985 –Von Wafer, American basketball player
- 1989 –Juno Temple, English actress
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