What Day of the Week

July 19, 2023 was the 200^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 165 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

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

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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.

• 64

  Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned.
• 1588

  Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.
• 1701

  Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
• 1843

  Brunel’s steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
• 1863

  American Civil War: Morgan’s Raid – At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan’s raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
• 1919

  Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen riot and burn down Luton Town Hall.
• 1940

  World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
• 1963

  Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
• 1983

  The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
• 1997

  The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.

• 1670

  Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
• 1894

  Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)
• 1896

  Bob Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1977)
• 1940

  Dennis Cole, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1948

  Beverly Archer, American actress
• 1952

  Robert A. Ficano, American politician
• 1964

  Masahiko Kondo, Japanese singer, actor and racing driver
• 1980

  Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player
• 1984

  Andrea Libman, Canadian actress and voice actress
• 1984

  Lewis Price, Welsh footballer

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