What day of the week was July 17, 1920?
The day of the week July 17th, 1920 fell on was a Saturday.
Gordon Gould the American physicist, invented the laser (d. 2005) was born on 17 July in 1920. As was Juan Antonio Samaranch the Spanish businessman, 7th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 2010) , Kenneth Wolstenholme the English sportscaster (d. 2002) .