Wednesday July 16, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

is the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are until the end of the year. The day of the week is .

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

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, months, and days ago
  • months since then
  • is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

622
The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
Father Junipero Serra founds California’s first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolves into the city of San Diego.
First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
Emily Stowe becomes the first female physician licensed to practice medicine in Canada.
Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to England during the first World War.
Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.
World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
Millennium Park, considered Chicago’s first and most ambitious early 21st century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Who were born on ?

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875)
Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)
Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer (d. 2003)
Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer (d. 2000)
Anita Brookner, English novelist
Don Payne, American politician
Yasuo Fukuda, Japanese politician
Dag Solstad, Norwegian novelist, short-story writer and dramatist
Jean-Luc Mongrain, Canadian journalist
Douglas J. Feith, American Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

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