What Day of the Week

July 6, 2020 was the 188^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 178 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is lunes.

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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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• 1189

  Richard I “the Lionheart” is crowned King of England.
• 1415

  Jan Hus is burned at the stake.
• 1484

  Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
• 1557

  King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually results in the loss of the City of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.
• 1630

  Thirty-Years War: 4,000 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany.
• 1777

  American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga – After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
• 1892

  3,800 striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded.
• 1893

  The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
• 1986

  Davis Phinney became the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
• 1988

  The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. 167 oil workers are killed, making it the world’s worst offshore oil disaster.

• 1686

  Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758)
• 1923

  Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish Communist politician, Prime Minister and President of Poland
• 1945

  Burt Ward, American actor
• 1948

  Brad Park, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1950

  Hélène Scherrer, Canadian politician
• 1954

  Willie Randolph, American baseball player
• 1978

  Tia Mowry, American actress
• 1981

  Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player
• 1982

  Brandon Jacobs, American football player
• 1983

  Gregory Smith, Canadian actor

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