What Day of the Week

July 17, 2021 is the 198^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 167 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is samedi.

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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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• 1586

  A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an ‘evangelical’league of defence, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League.
• 1791

  Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.
• 1794

  The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.
• 1917

  King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor.
• 1918

  On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
• 1962

  Nuclear weapons testing: The “Small Boy” test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
• 1968

  A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
• 1975

  Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
• 1976

  History of East Timor: East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
• 1996

  TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.

• 1898

  Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cinematographer (d. 1999)
• 1940

  Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian
• 1944

  Catherine Schell, Hungarian born British actress
• 1946

  Alun Armstrong, English actor
• 1971

  Calbert Cheaney, American basketball player
• 1975

  Terence Tao, Australian-Chinese mathematician
• 1979

  Mike Vogel, American actor
• 1983

  Ryan Guettler, professional Australian BMX rider
• 1984

  Sotiris Leontiou, Greek footballer
• 1986

  Dana, Korean singer and actress (TSZX)

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