What Day of the Week

July 24, 2020 was the 206^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 160 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

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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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• 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.
• 1567

  Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.
• 1715

  A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under Admiral Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, 9 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
• 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”.
• 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.
• 1982

  Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
• 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.
• 2001

  Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack. They destroyed 11 Aircraft (mostly military) and damaged 15, there are no civilian casualties. This incident slowed down Sri Lankan economy.
• 2005

  Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.

• 1821

  William Poole, American racketeer and politician (d. 1855)
• 1919

  Ferdinand Kübler, Swiss cyclist
• 1922

  Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer (d. 2010)
• 1949

  Michael Richards, American comedian
• 1968

  Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and actress
• 1979

  Anne-Gaëlle Sidot, French tennis player
• 1979

  Rose Byrne, Australian actress
• 1980

  Gauge, American pornographic actress
• 1987

  Mara Wilson, American actress
• 1987

  Nathan Gerbe, American hockey player

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