What Day of the Week

July 21, 2019 was the 202^nd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 163 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

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

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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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• 356 BC

  The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
• 230

  Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope.
• 1403

  Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
• 1774

  Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
• 1861

  American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run – at Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
• 1877

  After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
• 1944

  World War II: Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
• 1970

  After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
• 2001

  At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri railway station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
• 2005

  Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London’s public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.

• 1816

  Paul Reuter, German-born British journalist (d. 1899)
• 1939

  John Negroponte, 1st United States Director of National Intelligence
• 1943

  Edward Herrmann, American actor
• 1949

  Hirini Melbourne, New Zealand musician and composer
• 1955

  Béla Tarr, Hungarian film director
• 1956

  Michael Connelly, American author
• 1964

  Ross Kemp, British actor
• 1966

  Arija Bareikis, American actress
• 1979

  Tamika Catchings, American basketball player
• 1989

  Jamie Waylett, English actor

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