What day of the week was June 24, 2012?

The day of the week June 24th, 2012 fell on was a Sunday.

Gad Beck the German educator and author (b. 1923) died on this day in 2012. As did Gu Chaohao the Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1926) , Jean Cox the American tenor (b. 1922) , Youssef Dawoud the Egyptian actor (b. 1938) , Lonesome George the Ecuadorian tortoise (b. 1910) , Miki Roqué the Spanish footballer (b. 1988) , Ann C. Scales the American lawyer, educator, and activist (b. 1952) .

Lonesome George the the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise, dies.