Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: July 21
July 21, 2025 is the 202nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 163 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Cancer is your zodiac sign. Ruby is your modern birthstone. Ruby is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: July 21
- 365 –A tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The tsunami was caused by the Crete earthquake estimated to be 8.0 on the Richter Scale. 5,000 people perished in Alexandria, and 45,000 more died outside the city.
- 1568 –Eighty Years’ War: Battle of Jemmingen – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
- 1774 –Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
- 1861 –American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run – at Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
- 1918 –SMU U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
- 1954 –First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
- 1970 –After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
- 1976 –Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
- 2001 –At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri railway station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
- 2011 –NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.
Who were born on July 21?
- 1762 –Timothy Hinman, pioneer road builder
- 1899 –Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
- 1911 –Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and media theorist (d. 1980)
- 1924 –Don Knotts, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1925 –Anne Meacham, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1944 –Paul Wellstone, American politician (d. 2002)
- 1949 –Hirini Melbourne, New Zealand musician and composer
- 1969 –Emerson Hart, American musician (Tonic)
- 1981 –Joaquín Sánchez, Spanish footballer
- 1989 –Chris Gunter, Welsh footballer
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