What Day of the Week

July 24, 2019 was the 205^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 160 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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.

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• 1132

  Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
• 1411

  Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
• 1567

  Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.
• 1814

  War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown’s American invaders.
• 1911

  Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas”.
• 1931

  A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
• 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”.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1982

  Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.

• 923

  Emperor Suzaku of Japan (d. 952)
• 1794

  Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (d. 1865)
• 1851

  Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935)
• 1867

  Fred Tate, English cricketer (d. 1943)
• 1915

  Enrique Fernando, Filipino jurist (d. 2004)
• 1924

  Wilfred Josephs, English composer (d. 1997)
• 1938

  Eugene J. Martin, American painter and artist
• 1950

  Marc Jampole, American poet
• 1968

  Colleen Doran, American comic book writer and artist
• 1986

  Megan Park, Canadian actress

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