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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
- 1823 –Slavery is abolished in Chile.
- 1910 –The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
- 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.
- 1937 –Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called “Scottsboro Boys”.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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.
Who were born on July 24?
- 1899 –Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (d. 1981)
- 1930 –Alfred Balk, American magazine editor and journalist (d. 2010)
- 1939 –Walt Bellamy, American baseketball player
- 1946 –Leo Anthony Gallagher, American comedian
- 1947 –Geoff McQueen, British television screenwriter (d. 1994)
- 1966 –Martin Keown, English footballer
- 1975 –Torrie Wilson, American wrestler
- 1977 –Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player
- 1982 –Thiago Medeiros, Brazilian racing driver
- 1988 –Ricky Petterd, Australian rules footballer
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