What Day of the Week

July 23, 2020 was the 205^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 161 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was 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.

Leo 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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• 1632

  Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
• 1677

  Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
• 1793

  Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
• 1821

  While Mora Rebellion continuing, Greeks captured Monemvasia Castle and massacred nearly 3000 Turkish inhabitants.
• 1942

  Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
• 1952

  The European Coal and Steel community is established.
• 1962

  The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
• 1968

  The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel.
• 1970

  Qaboos ibn Sa’id becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa’id ibn Taimur initiating massive reforms ;modernisation programs and end to a decade long civil war.
• 1983

  The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Terrorist group. In the subsequent riots of Black July, about 1,000 Tamils are slaughtered, some 400,000 Tamils flee to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, India and many find refuge in Europe and Canada.

• 1838

  Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (d. 1910)
• 1886

  Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
• 1888

  Raymond Chandler, American novelist (d. 1959)
• 1898

  Jacob Marschak, American economist (d. 1977)
• 1918

  Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (d. 2005)
• 1928

  Leon Fleisher, American pianist
• 1940

  Don Imus, American talk radio host
• 1941

  Richie Evans, American NASCAR driver (d. 1985)
• 1950

  Blair Thornton, Canadian guitarist (Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
• 1961

  Martin Gore, English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode)

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