About July 24
July 24, 2023 is the 205th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 160 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 201 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.
- 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.
- 1814 –War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown’s American invaders.
- 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.
- 1911 –Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas”.
- 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.
- 1935 –The world’s first children’s railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 1990 –Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait-Iraq border.
- 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 –Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack. They destroyed 11 Aircraft (mostly military) and damaged 15, there are no civilian casualties. This incident slowed down Sri Lankan economy.
- 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.
- 2005 –Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
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