What are the important events that happened on July 24? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 24: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 24 is the 206^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 160 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 11, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,721,779,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectahexagon’ day.

Leo is the zodiac 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 189 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,233 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 24 Historical Events

• 1823 –
  Slavery is abolished in Chile.
• 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.
• 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).
• 1931 –
  A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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”.
• 2002 –
  Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.

Who were born on July 24?

• 1860 –
  Princess Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1919)
• 1900 –
  Zelda Fitzgerald, American artist (d. 1948)
• 1924 –
  Aris Poulianos, Greek anthropologist
• 1952 –
  Gus Van Sant, American film director
• 1953 –
  Jon Faddis, American jazz trumpet player and composer
• 1963 –
  Paul Geary, American musician
• 1965 –
  Kadeem Hardison, American actor
• 1970 –
  Elli Kokkinou, Greek singer
• 1975 –
  Jamie Langenbrunner, American ice hockey player
• 1981 –
  Summer Glau, American actress

Who died on July 24?

• 1129 –
  Emperor Shirakawa, of Japan (b. 1053)
• 1240 –
  Konrad von Thüringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
• 1568 –
  Prince Don Carlos of Spain (b. 1545)
• 1965 –
  Constance Bennett, American actress (b. 1904)
• 1973 –
  Konstantinos Dovas, Greek general and Prime Minister (b. 1898)
• 1980 –
  Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)
• 1980 –
  Uttam Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1926)
• 1995 –
  George Rodger, British photojournalist (b. 1908)
• 1995 –
  Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress, and occultist (b. 1922)
• 2004 –
  Bob Azzam, Egyptian singer (b. 1925)