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: Day of the Week
was the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There were until the end of the year. The day of the week was .
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mardi.
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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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: This Day in History
The end of this day marks the halfway point of a leap year. It also falls on the same day of the week as New Year’s Day in a leap year.
by the Numbers
days since
year, month, and days ago
month since then
is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
The year is not a leap year
Historical Event(s)
American Civil War: the Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of George B. McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign.
General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
Grant Park Music Festival begins its tradition of free summer symphonic music concert series in Chicago‘s Grant Park, which continues as the United States’only annual free outdoor classical music concert series.
The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
Sony introduces the Walkman.
O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
Over 500,000 people protested against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
Who were born on ?
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (d. 1799)
Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician (d. 1865)
Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek politician (d. 1987)
Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (d. 1992)
Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971)
Shirley Hemphill, American actress (d. 1999)
Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Charles’s ex wife (d. 1997)
Tadhg Kennelly, Irish Australian rules footballer
Lynsey Bartilson, American actress
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