Day Guide for Friday July 24th 2020

This is our day guide for Friday July 24th 2020 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?

Observances on July 24th 2020

International Self Care Day

International Self Care Day

International Self-Care Day provides a focus and opportunity to raise the profile of healthy lifestyle self-care programmes around the world.

Florists' Day

Florists' Day 🌼

Weddings, anniversaries, romantic gatherings... none of these events can do without a bouquet of flowers.

National Cousins Day

National Cousins Day

Family
USA

Find out the dates, history and traditions of National Cousins Day

National Drive-Thru Day

National Drive-Thru Day

Food
USA

Drive-Thru services are offered by over 200,000 restaurants in the US.

National Tequila Day

National Tequila Day

Alcohol
USA

This popular spirit is distilled from the blue agave plant and made only in Mexico.

National Thermal Engineering Day

National Thermal Engineering Day

General
USA

The Heat is On! National Thermal Engineering Day is on July 24th as that is the hottest day of the year.

Public Holidays on July 24th 2020

First Sermon Of Lord Buddha

First Sermon Of Lord Buddha

International

A public holiday on the fourth day of the sixth month in the Bhutanese calendar

Health-Sports Day

Health-Sports Day

Japan

Japan celebrates Sports Day to promote sports and an active lifestyle to ensure a healthy mind and body

Pioneer Day

Pioneer Day

USA

Marks the founding of Salt Lake City in 1847 with the arrival Brigham Young and the first Mormon settlers

Vanuatu Children's Day

Vanuatu Children's Day

Vanuatu

A day to promote the welfare and well-being of children and also to celebrate children and what they contribute to society

Simón Bolivar's Birthday

Simón Bolivar's Birthday

Venezuela

Simón Bolívar led Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire

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General Information for July 24th 2020

There are 6 observances on this day.
This was 798 days ago.
Day 206 of 2020
160 days left in 2020
Week 30 of the year

Moon phase

On this Day in History

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.
1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280
1931 - A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
1923 - The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
1814 - War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.