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.

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

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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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• 1567

  Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.
• 1910

  The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
• 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.
• 1922

  the draft of The British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; and which came into effect on 26 September 1923.
• 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).
• 1972

  Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
• 1974

  Constantine Karamanlis arrives in Greece following the collapse of the Greek military junta, beginning Greece’s metapolitefsi era.
• 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.
• 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.

• 1725

  John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807)
• 1803

  Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (d. 1856)
• 1880

  Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
• 1904

  Richard B. Morris, American constitutional historian (d. 1989)
• 1908

  Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (d. 1985)
• 1938

  John Sparling, New Zealand cricketer
• 1950

  Arliss Ryan, American author
• 1970

  Elli Kokkinou, Greek singer
• 1987

  Mara Wilson, American actress
• 1989

  Kim Tae-Hwan, South Korean footballer

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