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.

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

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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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• 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.
• 1762

  Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia.
• 1771

  Bloody Falls Massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, travelling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
• 1856

  The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, kills over 60 people.
• 1899

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

  World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1996

  TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
• 2009

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

• 1935

  Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
• 1941

  Achim Warmbold, German rally driver
• 1944

  Catherine Schell, Hungarian born British actress
• 1950

  Derek de Lint, Dutch actor
• 1960

  Dawn Upshaw, American soprano
• 1960

  Robin Shou, Hong Kong actor
• 1961

  Roy Pienaar, South African cricketer
• 1966

  Lou Barlow, American alternative rock singer and musician (Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh)
• 1972

  Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer
• 1978

  Émilie Simon, French singer

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