What Day of the Week

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

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

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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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• 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.
• 1793

  Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
• 1796

  Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio “Cleveland” after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
• 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.
• 1943

  World War II: Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.
• 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.
• 1983

  Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
• 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.
• 2005

  Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.

• 1535

  Katarina Stenbock, wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
• 1713

  Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
• 1733

  Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790)
• 1923

  Bob Dole, American politician, 1996 Republican Presidential candidate
• 1923

  Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
• 1935

  Tom Cartwright, English cricketer (d. 2007)
• 1964

  John Leguizamo, Colombian actor
• 1967

  Lauren Booth, British journalist
• 1982

  Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1983

  Steven Jackson, American football player

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