What Day of the Week

July 21, 2021 was the 202^nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 163 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

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

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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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• 230

  Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope.
• 285

  Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
• 1545

  The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight.
• 1718

  The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
• 1774

  Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
• 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.
• 1918

  SMU U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
• 1961

  Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission – Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
• 1976

  Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
• 2011

  NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.

• 1858

  Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (d. 1941)
• 1870

  Emil Orlik, Czech painter (d. 1932)
• 1880

  Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician and astronomer (d. 1919)
• 1882

  David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (d. 1967)
• 1926

  Queenie Watts, English actress (d. 1980)
• 1948

  Art Hindle, Canadian actor
• 1952

  Susannah Carr, Australian journalist
• 1975

  Ravindra Pushpakumara, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1979

  Tamika Catchings, American basketball player
• 1981

  Blake Lewis, American musician

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