About July 24
July 24, 2024 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.
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Leo is the sun 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.
What Happened On July 24
- 1148 –Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
- 1411 –Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
- 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.
- 1567 –Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.
- 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.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown – Confederate General Jubal Anderson Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.
- 1866 –Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. State to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
- 1901 –O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
- 1910 –The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
- 1911 –Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas”.
- 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.
- 1935 –The world’s first children’s railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1977 –End of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
- 1980 –The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the Men’s 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
- 1990 –Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait-Iraq border.
- 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.
- 2002 –Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
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