What Day of the Week

July 25, 2018 was the 206^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 159 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

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

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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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• 1547

  Henry II of France is crowned.
• 1593

  Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
• 1758

  Seven Years’ War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
• 1788

  Wolfgang Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
• 1797

  Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
• 1837

  The first commercial use of an electric telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
• 1898

  After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.
• 1915

  RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
• 1978

  Louise Brown, the world’s first “test tube baby” is born.
• 1993

  The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.

• 1860

  Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (d. 1917)
• 1923

  Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007)
• 1925

  Benny Benjamin, Motown session drummer (d. 1969)
• 1934

  Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter
• 1935

  Larry Sherry, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1958

  Alex Filippenko, American astrophysicist
• 1966

  Christine C. Quinn, American politician
• 1971

  Billy Wagner, American baseball player
• 1988

  Heather Marks, Canadian model
• 1989

  Francisco Ferreira, Portuguese journalist

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