What Day of the Week

July 29, 2021 is the 210^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 155 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is 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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• 238

  The Praetorian Guard stormed the palace and capture Pupienus and Balbinus. They are dragged through the streets of Rome and executed. On the same day Gordian III, age 13, is proclaimed emperor.
• 904

  Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessalonica, the Byzantine Empire’s second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.
• 1014

  Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion – Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6.
• 1030

  Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad – King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
• 1588

  Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
• 1851

  Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
• 1932

  Great Depression: in Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans.
• 1945

  The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
• 1948

  Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
• 1967

  Vietnam War: off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.

• 1817

  Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian-Russian painter (d. 1900)
• 1898

  Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
• 1905

  Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
• 1906

  Diana Vreeland, French-born American fashion editor (d. 1989)
• 1913

  Erich Priebke, German Nazi war criminal
• 1942

  Tony Sirico, American actor
• 1952

  Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Greek politician
• 1959

  Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and Fluxus and mail artist
• 1970

  John Rennie, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1983

  Alexei Kaigorodov, Russian hockey player

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