Wednesday July 16, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

is the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are until the end of the year. The day of the week is .

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is miércoles.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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.

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, month, and day ago
  • month since then
  • is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

1377
Coronation of Richard II of England.
Father Junipero Serra founds California’s first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolves into the city of San Diego.
American Revolutionary War: light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to England during the first World War.
Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.
Holocaust: Vel‘ d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel’d'Hiv): the government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.
Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The Luzon Earthquake strikes in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippines, with an intensity of 7.7.

Who were born on ?

Charles Sheeler, American photographer and artist (d. 1965)
Percy Kilbride, American actor (d. 1964)
Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)
Fritz Bauer, German judge (d. 1968)
Mary Philbin, American stage and film actress (d. 1993)
Jerry Doyle, American actor
Doug Herzog, American television executive
Zoran Jolevski, Macedonian diplomat, Ambassador to the USA
Will Ferrell, American comedian
Michael Umaña, Costa Rican footballer

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