Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: 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 2025. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Leo is your zodiac sign. Ruby is your modern birthstone. Ruby is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: July 24
- 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.
- 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.
- 1901 –O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1977 –End of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
Who were born on July 24?
- 1725 –John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807)
- 1917 –Robert Farnon, Canadian conductor, composer, and arranger (d. 2005)
- 1918 –Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist
- 1931 –Éric Tabarly, French sailor (d. 1998)
- 1947 –Robert Hays, American actor
- 1951 –Chris Smith, British politician
- 1964 –John Rosengren, American writer and author
- 1979 –Mark Andrew Smith, American graphic novelist
- 1979 –Rose Byrne, Australian actress
- 1980 –Wilfred Bungei, Kenyan runner
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