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, 487,032 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 ‘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.
• 1534 –
  French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
• 1910 –
  The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1966 –
  Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
• 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.
• 1982 –
  Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
• 2005 –
  Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.

Who were born on July 24?

• 1915 –
  Enrique Fernando, Filipino jurist (d. 2004)
• 1936 –
  Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian
• 1940 –
  Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
• 1964 –
  Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese author
• 1965 –
  Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player
• 1965 –
  Doug Liman, American film director
• 1965 –
  Kadeem Hardison, American actor
• 1966 –
  Martin Keown, English footballer
• 1969 –
  Rick Fox, Bahamian basketball player
• 1972 –
  Rev. Jen Miller, American performance artist

Who died on July 24?

• 1240 –
  Konrad von Thüringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
• 1568 –
  Prince Don Carlos of Spain (b. 1545)
• 1910 –
  Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)
• 1965 –
  Constance Bennett, American actress (b. 1904)
• 1969 –
  Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904)
• 1985 –
  Father Ezechiele Ramin MCCJ, Italian Comboni missionary priest and martyr (b. 1953)
• 1991 –
  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1992 –
  Arletty, French singer and actress (b. 1898)
• 1995 –
  Jerry Lordan, English composer and singer (b. 1934)
• 2007 –
  Nicola Zaccaria, Greek bass (b. 1923)