What Day of the Week

July 24, 2021 was the 205^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 160 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.

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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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• 1911

  Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas”.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1950

  Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
• 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”.
• 1982

  Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
• 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.
• 2009

  The MV Arctic Sea, reportedly carrying a cargo of timber, is allegedly hijacked in the North Sea by pirates, but much speculation remains as to the actual cargo and events.

• 1660

  Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (d. 1718)
• 1897

  Amelia Earhart, American aviator (d. 1937)
• 1900

  Zelda Fitzgerald, American artist (d. 1948)
• 1910

  Harry Horner, American art director (d. 1994)
• 1934

  Sante Kimes, American convicted con artist and murderer
• 1938

  Eugene J. Martin, American painter and artist
• 1945

  Hugh Ross, Canadian scientist and creationist advocate
• 1956

  Charles Crist, American politician
• 1957

  Larry Gott, English musician
• 1989

  Kim Tae-Hwan, South Korean footballer

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