What Day of the Week

July 22, 2021 is the 203^rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 162 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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

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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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• 1099

  First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
• 1456

  Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade – John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire
• 1587

  Colony of Roanoke: a second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
• 1686

  Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
• 1864

  American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
• 1934

  Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, “Public Enemy No. 1” John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
• 1942

  The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
• 1944

  The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
• 1962

  Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
• 1993

  Great Flood of 1993: levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.

• 1559

  Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619)
• 1888

  Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
• 1908

  Amy Vanderbilt, American etiquette authority (d. 1974)
• 1934

  Louise Fletcher, American actress
• 1942

  Peter Habeler, Austrian mountaineer
• 1946

  Mireille Mathieu, French singer
• 1972

  Seth Fisher, American comic book artist and penciller (d. 2006)
• 1973

  Ronald Ray Howard, American murderer (d. 2005)
• 1984

  Stewart Downing, English footballer
• 1988

  Jeremy Schilling, Jewish-American radio personality

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