What day of the week was July 24, 1974?

The day of the week July 24th, 1974 fell on was a Wednesday.

James Chadwick the English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) died on this day in 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.