What Day of the Week

July 21, 2020 was the 203^rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 163 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

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

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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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• 285

  Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
• 1865

  In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
• 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.
• 1949

  The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
• 1969

  Space Race: Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission (July 20 in North America).
• 1983

  The world’s lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at -89.2 °C.
• 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.
• 2011

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

• 1851

  Sam Bass, American train robber and outlaw (d. 1878)
• 1903

  Roy Neuberger, American financier (d. 2010)
• 1926

  Karel Reisz, British film director (d. 2002)
• 1935

  Moe Drabowsky, baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1945

  Barry Richards, Former South African cricketer
• 1971

  Charlotte Gainsbourg, French actress and singer
• 1975

  Cara Dillon, Irish folk singer
• 1978

  Josh Hartnett, American actor
• 1985

  Vanessa Lengies, Canadian actress
• 1988

  Chris Mitchell, Scottish footballer

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