What Day of the Week

July 3, 2020 is the 185^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 181 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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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• 1819

  The Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.
• 1839

  The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today’s Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.
• 1848

  Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans.
• 1849

  The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
• 1866

  Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
• 1952

  The SS United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary.
• 1969

  The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
• 1979

  U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
• 1988

  United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
• 2001

  A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.

• 1728

  Robert Adam, Scottish architect (d. 1792)
• 1866

  Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (d. 1907)
• 1933

  Edward Brandt, American doctor and public health official (d. 2007)
• 1939

  László Kovács, Hungarian politician and diplomat
• 1946

  Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland
• 1951

  Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician
• 1970

  Teemu Selänne, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1976

  Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1980

  Harbhajan Singh, Indian cricketer
• 1983

  Edinson Volquez, Dominican baseball player

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