What Day of the Week

July 22, 2019 was the 203^rd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 162 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is lunes.

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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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• 838

  Battle of Anzen: the Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
• 1298

  Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk – King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
• 1686

  Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
• 1706

  The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries’ Parliaments, lead to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1793

  Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
• 1797

  Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated.
• 1812

  Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War – Battle of Salamanca – British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
• 1933

  Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15596 mi in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
• 1946

  King David Hotel bombing: a Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandate Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
• 2011

  Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.

• 1863

  Alec Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1952)
• 1890

  Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American Kennedy family matriarch (d. 1995)
• 1892

  Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player (d. 1983)
• 1898

  Alexander Calder, American sculptor and inventor (d. 1976)
• 1922

  Orson Bean, American actor
• 1954

  Al Di Meola, American guitarist
• 1967

  Irene Bedard, American actress
• 1972

  Keyshawn Johnson, American football player
• 1977

  Ezio Galon, Italian rugby player
• 1979

  James Mason, British professional wrestler

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