What Day of the Week

July 24, 2018 was the 205^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 160 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.

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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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• 1701

  Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.
• 1847

  After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer Day Utah state holiday and the Days of '47 Parade.
• 1911

  Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas”.
• 1915

  The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
• 1937

  Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called “Scottsboro Boys”.
• 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.
• 1977

  End of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
• 1980

  The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the Men’s 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
• 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.
• 2002

  Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.

• 1561

  Maria of Palatinate-Simmern, Duchess of Södermanland (d. 1589)
• 1851

  Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935)
• 1936

  Mark Goddard, American actor
• 1942

  Heinz Burt, bassist and singer (d. 2000)
• 1944

  Jim Armstrong (guitarist), bassist and singer (d. 2000)
• 1964

  John Rosengren, American writer and author
• 1971

  John Partridge, English singer
• 1972

  Kaiō Hiroyuki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1981

  Summer Glau, American actress
• 1984

  Dhani Lennevald, Swedish singer

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