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 French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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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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• 306

  Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
• 1261

  The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
• 1593

  Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
• 1609

  The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
• 1795

  The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
• 1814

  War of 1812: Battle of Lundy’s Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall’s British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown’s Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
• 1908

  Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
• 1925

  Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
• 1944

  World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: 1,500 casualties, including 500 killed.
• 1993

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

• 1421

  Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
• 1658

  Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
• 1894

  Gavrilo Princip, Serbian assassin (d. 1918)
• 1907

  Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
• 1926

  Whitey Lockman, American baseball player
• 1934

  Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter
• 1941

  Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer
• 1954

  Lynne Frederick, British Actress (d. 1994)
• 1966

  Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer
• 1985

  Gaël Clichy, French footballer

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