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 205th 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.
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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.
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July 24 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1715 –A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under Admiral Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, 9 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
- 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.
- 1922 –the draft of The British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; and which came into effect on 26 September 1923.
- 1923 –The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
- 1972 –Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
- 1974 –Constantine Karamanlis arrives in Greece following the collapse of the Greek military junta, beginning Greece’s metapolitefsi era.
- 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.
- 1998 –Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
- 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.
Who were born on July 24?
- 923 –Emperor Suzaku of Japan (d. 952)
- 1888 –Arthur Richardson, Australian cricketer (d. 1973)
- 1935 –Pat Oliphant, Australian political cartoonist
- 1947 –Peter Serkin, American pianist
- 1947 –Robert Hays, American actor
- 1950 –Marc Jampole, American poet
- 1951 –Chris Smith, British politician
- 1957 –Pam Tillis, American singer
- 1976 –Nate Bump, American baseball player
- 1990 –Dean Stoneman, British racing driver
Who died on July 24?
- 1115 –Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046)
- 1908 –Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (b. 1867)
- 1980 –Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)
- 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 –Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress, and occultist (b. 1922)
- 1996 –Alphonso Roberts, West Indian cricketer and politician (b. 1937)
- 2007 –Nicola Zaccaria, Greek bass (b. 1923)
- 2010 –Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (b. 1949)
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