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 15
July 15, 2025 is the 196th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 169 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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 15
- 1149 –The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
- 1240 –Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: a Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
- 1741 –Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
- 1799 –The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign.
- 1870 –Reconstruction era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
- 1888 –The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
- 1954 –First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
- 1975 –Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
- 1979 –U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called “malaise” speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as “this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation” but in which he never uses the word malaise
- 1985 –The Nintendo Entertainment System, the best-selling game console of its time, is released in Japan.
Who were born on July 15?
- 1914 –Hammond Innes, English writer (d. 1998)
- 1928 –Carl Woese, American microbiologist
- 1930 –Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
- 1944 –Millie Jackson, American singer
- 1954 –Jeff Jarvis, American journalist
- 1956 –Ian Curtis, British singer and songwriter (Joy Division) (d. 1980)
- 1958 –Gary Heale, English footballer
- 1967 –Adam Savage, co-host of the television series MythBusters
- 1977 –Andre Nel, South African cricketer
- 1980 –Reggie Abercrombie, American baseball player
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