What are the important events that happened on July 24? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 24: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 24 is the 206th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 160 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 11, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 478,272 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectahexagon’ day.
Leo 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.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 189 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,233 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 24 Historical Events
- 1132 –Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
- 1823 –Slavery is abolished in Chile.
- 1866 –Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. State to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
- 1915 –The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
- 1927 –The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
- 1959 –At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a “Kitchen Debate”.
- 1967 –During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (“Long live free Quebec!”). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
- 1974 –Watergate scandal: the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
- 2001 –Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
- 2005 –Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
Who were born on July 24?
- 1574 –Thomas Platter the Younger, Swiss physician (d. 1628)
- 1757 –Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (d. 1825)
- 1851 –Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935)
- 1860 –Alfons Mucha, Czech artist (d. 1939)
- 1949 –Michael Richards, American comedian
- 1950 –Marc Jampole, American poet
- 1953 –Jon Faddis, American jazz trumpet player and composer
- 1965 –Doug Liman, American film director
- 1979 –Valerio Scassellati, Italian racing driver
- 1985 –Eric Wright, American football player
Who died on July 24?
- 1594 –John Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1544)
- 1962 –Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer (b. 1917)
- 1970 –Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897)
- 1986 –Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
- 1995 –Jerry Lordan, English composer and singer (b. 1934)
- 1995 –Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress, and occultist (b. 1922)
- 1997 –William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1906)
- 2001 –Georges Dor, Canadian author, composer, singer and playwright (b. 1931)
- 2008 –Norman Dello Joio, American composer (b. 1913)
- 2011 –Frank Dietrich, German politician (b. 1966)
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