What Day of the Week

July 30, 2020 was the 212^nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 154 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

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

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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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• 1733

  The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
• 1756

  In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
• 1865

  The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
• 1932

  Premiere of Walt Disney’s Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
• 1956

  A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
• 1962

  The Trans-Canada Highway, the largest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
• 1969

  Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
• 1974

  Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
• 2003

  In Mexico, the last ‘old style’Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
• 2006

  Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets’ being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets.

• 1641

  Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
• 1916

  Dick Wilson, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1956

  Anita Hill, American academic, witness at the sexual harassment trial against Clarence Thomas
• 1958

  Daley Thompson, English decathlete
• 1958

  Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter
• 1973

  Anastasios Katsabis, Greek footballer
• 1979

  Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer
• 1981

  Juan Smith, South African rugby player
• 1982

  James Anderson, English cricketer
• 2002

  Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese royal

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