What Day of the Week

July 17, 2019 is the 198^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 167 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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

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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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.
• 1717

  King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel’s Water Music is premiered.
• 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.
• 1932

  Altona Bloody Sunday.
• 1936

  Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
• 1955

  Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
• 1962

  Nuclear weapons testing: The “Small Boy” test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
• 1976

  The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
• 1981

  A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
• 1998

  A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crime against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.

• 1902

  Christina Stead, Australian novelist (d. 1983)
• 1917

  Lou Boudreau, Major League baseball player and manager (d. 2001)
• 1939

  Spencer Davis, British singer and guitarist (Spencer Davis Group)
• 1948

  Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and opera director
• 1960

  Kim Barnett, English cricketer
• 1965

  Craig Morgan, American singer
• 1976

  Dagmara Dominczyk, Polish actress
• 1976

  Luke Bryan, American musician
• 1977

  Lehmber Hussainpuri, Famous Indian Singer
• 1987

  Jeremih Felton, R&B singer

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