What Day of the Week

July 22, 2020 is the 204^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 162 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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

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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1951

  Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, “Gypsy”) are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
• 1962

  Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
• 1977

  Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
• 1991

  Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
• 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.

• 1559

  Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619)
• 1713

  Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
• 1888

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

  Amy Vanderbilt, American etiquette authority (d. 1974)
• 1953

  Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress
• 1954

  Lonette McKee, American actress
• 1954

  Steve LaTourette, American politician
• 1964

  Rafael Addison, American basketball player
• 1978

  Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
• 1993

  Amber Beattie, English actress

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