What Day of the Week

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

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

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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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• 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.
• 1823

  Slavery is abolished in Chile.
• 1866

  Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. State to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
• 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.
• 1924

  Archeologist Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• 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.

• 1851

  Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935)
• 1880

  Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (d. 1959)
• 1916

  Bob Eberly, singer with the Jimmy Dorsey Band and Helen O'Connell, (d. 1981)
• 1922

  Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer (d. 2010)
• 1930

  Keshubhai Patel, Former Chief Minister of the Western State of Gujarat in India
• 1945

  Azim Premji, Indian businessman
• 1983

  Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer
• 1985

  Patrice Bergeron, Canadian hockey player
• 1986

  Megan Park, Canadian actress
• 1987

  Cafu, Brazilian footballer

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