About July 24
July 24, 2025 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.
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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 208 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 24
- 1132 –Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
- 1148 –Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
- 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.
- 1814 –War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown’s American invaders.
- 1823 –Slavery is abolished in Chile.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1935 –The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (44°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- 1935 –The world’s first children’s railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
- 1937 –Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called “Scottsboro Boys”.
- 1950 –Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
- 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.
- 1972 –Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
- 1982 –Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
- 1983 –George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the “Pine Tar Incident”.
- 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.
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