This is our day guide for Sunday July 24th 2016 which shows you at a glance what's happening on this day around the world. Using the calendar on this page, you can look at a day guide for any day. Why not look up your birthday to see which holidays you share it with?
Holidays on July 24th 2016
International: Simon Bolivar Day
Simón Bolívar led Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire| Choose a Day |
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| General Information for July 24th 2016 | |
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| There are 1 public holidays today. | |
| Day 206 of 2016 | |
| 160 days left in 2016 | |
| Week 29 of the year | |
| On this Day in History | |
| 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. | |
| 1936 - 'At the third stoke it will be one... thirty-two... and twenty seconds...' The Speaking Clock ticked into life. | |
| 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). | |
| 1908 - Italian pastry cook Dorando Pietri almost wins the marathon race of the fourth Olympic Games of the modern era, held in London. |
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