July 22: Day of the Week
July 22, 2023 is the 203rd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 162 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.
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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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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July 22 Historical Event(s)
- 1499Battle of Dornach – The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
- 1587Colony of Roanoke: a second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
- 1805Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Cape Finisterre – an inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
- 1933Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15596 mi in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
- 1937New Deal: the United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1942Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
- 1946King 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.
- 1983Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
- 1991Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
- 2002Israel kills Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas’s military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
Who were born on July 22?
- 1882Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
- 1922Orson Bean, American actor
- 1924Margaret Whiting, American singer (d. 2011)
- 1941George Clinton, American singer and musician (Parliament, Funkadelic)
- 1949Lasse Virén, Finnish long distance runner
- 1957Dave Stieb, American baseball player
- 1964John Leguizamo, Colombian actor
- 1980Scott Dixon, New Zealand racing driver
- 1983Arsenie Todiraş, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
- 1988Paul Coutts, Scottish footballer
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