What Day of the Week

July 15, 2021 is the 196^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 169 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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

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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.

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• 1149

  The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
• 1207

  King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
• 1240

  Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: a Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
• 1685

  Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685.
• 1789

  Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
• 1870

  Reconstruction era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
• 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.
• 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
• 1996

  A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
• 2003

  AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.

• 1704

  August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (d. 1792)
• 1892

  Walter Benjamin, German literary critic and writer (d. 1940)
• 1905

  Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (d. 1974)
• 1925

  Philip Carey, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1929

  Charles Anthony, American tenor
• 1932

  Paulo Moura, Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist (d. 2010)
• 1948

  Dimosthenis Kourtovik, Greek writer, literary critic and anthropologist
• 1949

  Carl Bildt, Swedish politician
• 1956

  Ian Curtis, British singer and songwriter (Joy Division) (d. 1980)
• 1956

  Wayne Taylor, South African race car driver

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