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.
You can browse the full year calendar in case you need it.
Hey! How’s your lovelife today? Get a free love reading
with the most frank answers. Start to seize love opportunities in your life! Did I mention it’s F-R-E-E?
(Sponsored link; 18+ only)
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.
- 1148 –Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
- 1487 –Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer.
- 1701 –Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.
- 1823 –Slavery is abolished in Chile.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1924 –Archeologist Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
- 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 world’s first children’s railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
- 1938 –First ascent of the Eiger north face.
- 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.
- 1966 –Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
- 1972 –Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2005 –Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
What no one tells you about your first name’s personality. Are there magical powers in your given name? Check out Diego’s personality today! (Sponsored links)
Share or Link to This Page: