What Day of the Week

July 8, 2021 was the 189^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 176 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

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

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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.
• 1663

  Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
• 1775

  The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.
• 1808

  Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.
• 1876

  White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
• 1907

  Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
• 1932

  The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
• 1970

  Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American Self-Determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination Act.
• 1988

  The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more.
• 1994

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

• 1917

  Faye Emerson, American actress (d. 1983)
• 1931

  Roone Arledge, American sports broadcaster (d. 2002)
• 1942

  Janice Pennington, American game show model
• 1951

  Anjelica Huston, American actress
• 1952

  Jack Lambert, American football player
• 1955

  Alison Fraser, American actress
• 1964

  Linda de Mol, Dutch actress and host
• 1967

  Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
• 1976

  Talal El Karkouri, Moroccan footballer
• 2001

  Yang Peiyi, Chinese singer

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