July, 24th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Sunday 24, 2005:
Lance Armstrong wins his seventh Tour de France.

Wednesday 24, 2002:
Alfred Moisiu becomes President of Albania.

Tuesday 24, 2001:
2001 - The Taiwan Solidarity Union is established.

Friday 24, 1998:
Russel Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.

Sunday 24, 1983:
George Brett, batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".

Wednesday 24, 1974:
Watergate Scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rule 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.

Thursday 24, 1969:
Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.

Monday 24, 1967:
During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.

Saturday 24, 1965:
Vietnam War: Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are the targets of antiaircraft missiles in the first such attack against American planes in the war. One is shot down and the other three sustain damage.

Friday 24, 1959:
At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice-president Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev have a "kitchen debate."

Tuesday 24, 1956:
At New York City's Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together which started on July 25, 1946.

Saturday 24, 1943:
World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans 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 280,000 buildings.

Saturday 24, 1937:
Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys."

Wednesday 24, 1935:
The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (44°C) in Chicago, Illinois and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Friday 24, 1931:
A fire at a home for aged people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.

Wednesday 24, 1929:
The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).

Sunday 24, 1927:
The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.

Tuesday 24, 1923:
The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in the First World War.

Saturday 24, 1915:
Passenger ship Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, Illinois, with the loss of 845 lives.

Monday 24, 1911:
Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu "the Lost City of the Incas".

Sunday 24, 1910:
James MacGillivray publishes first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News.

Wednesday 24, 1901:
O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.

Tuesday 24, 1866:
Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.

Sunday 24, 1864:
Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep Yankees out of the Shenandoah Valley.

Saturday 24, 1847:
After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.

Tuesday 24, 1832:
Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass.

Sunday 24, 1814:
War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward Niagara to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.

Sunday 24, 1701:
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded trading post at Ft Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.

Monday 24, 1567:
Mary Queen of Scots is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son King James VI.

Tuesday 24, 1534:
French explorer Jacques Cartier planted a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and took possession of the territory in the name of the King Francis I of France.

Sunday 24, 1487:
Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer

Wednesday 24, 1411:
Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles on Scottish soil.

Sunday 24, 1216:
Cencio Savelli is consecrated as Pope Honorius III

Monday 24, 311:
The end of the fifth year of reign of Constantine the Great

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/24-july/on-this-day.html


People born on July 24

1985:
Teagan Presley, American actress (b: July 24, 1985) (Biography of Teagan Presley)

1982:
Anna Paquin, Canadian-born New Zealand actress (b: July 24, 1982) (Biography of Anna Paquin)

1981:
Summer Glau, American actress (b: July 24, 1981) (Biography of Summer Glau)

1980:
Gauge, American actress (b: July 24, 1980) (Biography of Gauge (porn star))

1969:
Rick Fox, Canadian basketball player (b: July 24, 1969) (Biography of Rick Fox)
Jennifer Lopez, Puerto Rican actress, singer (b: July 24, 1969) (Biography of Jennifer Lopez)

1968:
Laura Leighton, American actress (b: July 24, 1968) (Biography of Laura Leighton)
Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and actress (b: July 24, 1968) (Biography of Kristin Chenoweth)

1965:
Kadeem Hardison, American actor (b: July 24, 1965) (Biography of Kadeem Hardison)

1964:
Barry Bonds, baseball player (b: July 24, 1964) (Biography of Barry Bonds)

1963:
Karl Malone, American basketball player (b: July 24, 1963) (Biography of Karl Malone)

1957:
Pam Tillis, American singer (b: July 24, 1957) (Biography of Pam Tillis)

1952:
Gus Van Sant, American film director (b: July 24, 1952) (Biography of Gus Van Sant)

1951:
Lynda Carter, American actress (b: July 24, 1951) (Biography of Lynda Carter)
Chris Smith, British politician (b: July 24, 1951) (Biography of Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury)

1949:
Michael Richards, American comedian (b: July 24, 1949) (Biography of Michael Richards)

1947:
Robert Hays, American actor (b: July 24, 1947) (Biography of Robert Hays)
Peter Serkin, American pianist (b: July 24, 1947) (Biography of Peter Serkin)

1945:
Azim Premji, Indian businessman (b: July 24, 1945) (Biography of Azim Premji)

1942:
Chris Sarandon, American actor (b: July 24, 1942) (Biography of Chris Sarandon)

1940:
Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian (b: July 24, 1940) (Biography of Stanley Hauerwas)

1936:
Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedienne (b: July 24, 1936) (Biography of Ruth Buzzi)

1935:
Pat Oliphant, Australian political cartoonist (b: July 24, 1935) (Biography of Pat Oliphant)

1933:
Doug Sanders, American golfer (b: July 24, 1933) (Biography of Doug Sanders)

1931:
Ermanno Olmi, Italian director (b: July 24, 1931) (Biography of Ermanno Olmi)

1929:
Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (b: July 24, 1929) (Biography of Oriana Fallaci)

1920:
Bella Abzug, U.S. Congresswoman (b: July 24, 1920 ; d: March 31, 1998) (Biography of Bella Abzug)

1918:
Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist (b: July 24, 1918) (Biography of Ruggiero Ricci)

1917:
Robert Farnon, Canadian-born conductor, composer, and arranger (b: July 24, 1917) (Biography of Robert Farnon)

1916:
John D. MacDonald, American novelist, (b: July 24, 1916) (Biography of John D. MacDonald)

1908:
Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (b: July 24, 1908) (Biography of Cootie Williams)

1899:
Chief Dan George, Meti actor (b: July 24, 1899 ; d: September 23, 1981) (Biography of Chief Dan George)

1898:
Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared 1937) (b: July 24, 1898 ; d: July 2, 1937) (Biography of Amelia Earhart)

1895:
Robert Graves, English author (b: July 24, 1895 ; d: December 7, 1985) (Biography of Robert Graves)

1880:
Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b: July 24, 1880 ; d: July 15, 1959) (Biography of Ernest Bloch)

1878:
Lord Dunsany, Irish writer (b: July 24, 1878) (Biography of Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany)

1864:
Frank Wedekind, German writer (b: July 24, 1864) (Biography of Frank Wedekind)

1860:
Alfons Mucha, Czech artist (b: July 24, 1860) (Biography of Alfons Mucha)

1857:
Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b: July 24, 1857 ; d: August 21, 1943) (Biography of Henrik Pontoppidan)

1853:
William Gillette, American actor and author (b: July 24, 1853 ; d: April 29, 1937) (Biography of William Gillette)

1803:
Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (b: July 24, 1803 ; d: May 3, 1856) (Biography of Adolphe Charles Adam)

1802:
Alexandre Dumas père, French writer (b: July 24, 1802 ; d: December 5, 1870) (Biography of Alexandre Dumas)

1786:
Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (b: July 24, 1786 ; d: September 11, 1843) (Biography of Joseph Nicollet)

1783:
Simón Bolívar, South American liberator (b: July 24, 1783 ; d: December 17, 1830) (Biography of Simón Bolívar)

1725:
John Newton English cleric and hymnist (b: July 24, 1725 ; d: December 21, 1807) (Biography of John Newton)

1660:
Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (b: July 24, 1660 ; d: February 1, 1718) (Biography of Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/24-july/births.html