About July 24
July 24, 2021 is the 205th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 160 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 192 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.
- 1487 –Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1866 –Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. State to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
- 1911 –Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas”.
- 1927 –The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
- 1929 –The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1974 –Constantine Karamanlis arrives in Greece following the collapse of the Greek military junta, beginning Greece’s metapolitefsi era.
- 1977 –End of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
- 1982 –Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
- 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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