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 205^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 160 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 11, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,221,920 minutes 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 ‘dihectapentagon’ 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 208 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 4,598 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 24 Historical Events

• 1132 –
  Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
• 1701 –
  Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.
• 1847 –
  After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer Day Utah state holiday and the Days of '47 Parade.
• 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.
• 1931 –
  A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
• 1938 –
  First ascent of the Eiger north face.
• 1943 –
  World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
• 1950 –
  Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
• 1990 –
  Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait-Iraq border.
• 2009 –
  The MV Arctic Sea, reportedly carrying a cargo of timber, is allegedly hijacked in the North Sea by pirates, but much speculation remains as to the actual cargo and events.

Who were born on July 24?

• 1878 –
  Edward Plunkett, Irish writer (d. 1957)
• 1919 –
  Robert Marsden Hope, Australian jurist (d. 1999)
• 1921 –
  Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2008)
• 1947 –
  Peter Serkin, American pianist
• 1950 –
  Marc Jampole, American poet
• 1963 –
  Karl Malone, American basketball player
• 1964 –
  Barry Bonds, American baseball player
• 1975 –
  Jamie Langenbrunner, American ice hockey player
• 1978 –
  Andy Irons, American professional surfer (d. 2010)
• 1983 –
  Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer

Who died on July 24?

• 1240 –
  Konrad von Thüringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
• 1739 –
  Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1686)
• 1908 –
  Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (b. 1867)
• 1969 –
  Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904)
• 1985 –
  Father Ezechiele Ramin MCCJ, Italian Comboni missionary priest and martyr (b. 1953)
• 1986 –
  Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1995 –
  Jerry Lordan, English composer and singer (b. 1934)
• 1996 –
  Alphonso Roberts, West Indian cricketer and politician (b. 1937)
• 2004 –
  Bob Azzam, Egyptian singer (b. 1925)
• 2011 –
  Frank Dietrich, German politician (b. 1966)