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Day Of The Week: July 24
July 24, 2025 is the 205th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 160 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Historical Events: July 24
- 1148 –Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
- 1411 –Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
- 1701 –Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.
- 1823 –Slavery is abolished in Chile.
- 1937 –Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called “Scottsboro Boys”.
- 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.
- 1969 –Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1983 –George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the “Pine Tar Incident”.
- 1990 –Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait-Iraq border.
Who were born on July 24?
- 1910 –Harry Horner, American art director (d. 1994)
- 1922 –Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer (d. 2010)
- 1929 –Alfred Binns, West Indian cricketer
- 1936 –Dan Inosanto, Filipino-American martial artist
- 1940 –Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
- 1951 –Chris Smith, British politician
- 1963 –Julie Krone, American jockey
- 1969 –Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer
- 1975 –Jamie Langenbrunner, American ice hockey player
- 1986 –Andrei Lutai, Russian figure skater
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