Wednesday, July 24, 2013

This will be 205th day of the year and 160 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 17 Av 5773
Chinese calendar — the 17th day of the 6th month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

July 24 Birthdays

Amelia Earhart
1897–1937, American aviator, born in Atchison, Kansas.

Simon Bolivar
liberator (1783)

Alexandre Dumas
novelist (1802)

Bella Abzug
Congresswoman (1920)

Jennifer Lopez
actress (1969)

July 2013

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7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

July 24 in History

1847

Brigham Young and the first members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) arrived at the Great Salt Lake.

1862

Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, died in Kinderhook, N.Y.

1866

Tennessee became the first Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.

1937

Charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case were dropped.

1974

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon had to turn over White House tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.

2002

Nine coal miners were trapped in a mine in Pennsylvania. All were rescued three days later.

2005

Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France for a record-breaking seventh time.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.