What Day of the Week

July 8, 2019 is the 189^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 176 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is 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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• 1497

  Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.
• 1709

  Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava – Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden’s role as a major power in Europe.
• 1758

  French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
• 1808

  Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.
• 1874

  The Mounties begin their March West.
• 1879

  Sailing ship USS Jeannette (1878) departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
• 1898

  The death of crime boss Soapy Smith (who is shot) releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
• 1948

  The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
• 1962

  Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crash the Student Movement.
• 1994

  Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.

• 1528

  Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)
• 1766

  Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842)
• 1830

  Frederick William Seward, 6th and 11th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915)
• 1949

  Dale Hoganson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1952

  Jack Lambert, American football player
• 1966

  Mike Nawrocki, American voice actor
• 1968

  Michael Weatherly, American actor
• 1982

  Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
• 1983

  Jaroslav Janiš, Czech racing car driver
• 2000

  Sophie Nyweide, American actress

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