What Day of the Week

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

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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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• 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.
• 1899

  NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
• 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.
• 1944

  Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
• 1955

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

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

  The opening of the Humber Bridge by HM The Queen in England.
• 1989

  First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.

• 1674

  Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (d. 1748)
• 1868

  Henri Nathansen, Danish writer and stage director (d. 1944)
• 1913

  Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d. 1997)
• 1918

  Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
• 1933

  Tony Pithey, South African Cricketer (d. 2006)
• 1939

  Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
• 1947

  Wolfgang Flür, German musician (Kraftwerk)
• 1950

  Phoebe Snow, American singer/songwriter (d. 2011)
• 1976

  Luke Bryan, American musician
• 1980

  Javier Camuñas, Spanish footballer

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