What Day of the Week

July 17, 2020 was the 199^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 167 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

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

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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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• 180

  Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
• 1453

  Hundred Years’ War: Battle of Castillon: The French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.
• 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.
• 1794

  The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.
• 1938

  Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the “wrong way” to Ireland and becomes known as “Wrong Way” Corrigan.
• 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.
• 1976

  History of East Timor: East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
• 2007

  TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. This is Brazil’s deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths.
• 2009

  Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4 foreigners.

• 1910

  Barbara O'Neil, American actress, d. 1980
• 1921

  Louis Lachenal, French alpinist, one of the first two mountaineers to climb a summit of more than 8,000 meters.(d. 1955)
• 1941

  Achim Warmbold, German rally driver
• 1944

  Carlos Alberto, Brazilian football player
• 1956

  Bryan Trottier, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960

  Kim Barnett, English cricketer
• 1962

  Bill Sage, American actor
• 1975

  Terence Tao, Australian-Chinese mathematician
• 1978

  Mike Hettinga, American professional wrestler
• 1981

  Hely Ollarves, Venezuelan track and field athlete

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