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- 1132 Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
- 1411 Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles on Scottish soil.
- 1487 Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer.
- 1567 Mary Queen of Scots is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI.
- 1651 Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va
- 1673 Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
- 1683 The first settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard the Concord
- 1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
- 1701 French make first landing at site of Detroit
- 1704 Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain
- 1758 George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess
- 1783 Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
- 1799 William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York
- 1801 Visitor posting - Worlds first street tramway starts operation in England - United Kingdom
- 1813 Sailing Master Elijah Mix attempts to blow up British warship Plantagenet with a torpedo near Cape Henry, Virginia.
- 1814 War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
- 1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of first public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson
- 1832 Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass.
- 1847 After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer Day Utah state holiday and the Days of '47 Parade.
- 1847 Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT
- 1847 Rotary-type printing press patented by Richard March Hoe, NYC
- 1866 Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
- 1870 The first trans-US rail service begins
- 1877 The first time federal troops are used to combat strikers
- 1900 Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed
- 1901 O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
- 1911 Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu "the Lost City of the Incas".
- 1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die
- 1918 Sgt. Richard Charles TRAVIS, 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Hebuterne, France
- 1919 Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded)
- 1923 Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne
- 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.
- 1924 The World Chess Federation FIDE is founded in Paris.
- 1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs
- 1927 Opening of the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, Belgium The gate records the names of over 56,000 allied soldiers, among them 6,176 Australian soldiers of the First Australian Imperial Force (AIF), missing in the battles near Ypres during the First World War
- 1927 The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
- 1929 Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
- 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).
- 1931 A fire at a home for aged people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
- 1934 The first ptarmigan hatched & reared in captivity, Ithaca, NY
- 1935 The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109F (44C) in Chicago and 104F (40C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- 1935 The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
- 1936 118ø F (48ø C), Minden, Nebraska (state record)
- 1936 121ø F (49ø C), near Alton, Kansas (state record)
- 1937 Alabama drops rape charges against 5 blacks, the so-called "Scottsboro Boys."
- 1942 HMCS St. Croix (Destroyer) sinks the U-90
- 1942 The Bureau of Aeronautics issued a Planning Directive calling for procurement of four Sikorsky helicopters for study and development by Navy and Coast Guard aviation forces.
- 1943 Revolt in Italy; Mussolini is deposed by Badoglio.
- 1944 Following 43 days of naval gunfire and air bombardment, Naval Task Force lands Marines on Tinian.
- 1944 Russians liberate the Majdanek extermination camp.
- 1948 Soviets blockades Berlin from the west
- 1950 V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; first launch from Cape Canaveral
- 1952 112ø F (44ø C), Louisville, Georgia (state record)
- 1952 Pres Truman settles 53-day steel strike
- 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.
- 1956 Khartoum University College is awarded university status becoming the University of Khartoum.
- 1957 Visitor posting - Lois Marie Yager was born - USA
- 1959 At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate."
- 1959 VP Nixon argued with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"
- 1960 Visitor posting - July 24 1960 Craig P. Hebert born in Lafayette, Louisiana
- 1961 A US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
- 1961 Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of the Today Show
- 1962 Visitor posting - July 24th 1962 Julie Jones of Swansea / Plymouth was born in London
- 1963 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea
- 1965 Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"
- 1965 Casey Stengel resigns as manager of the NY Mets
- 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.
- 1966 Michael Pelkey made the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping is now been banned from El Cap.
- 1966 Montgomery Clift actor, dies at 45
- 1967 Beatles sign a petition in The Times to legalize marijuana
- 1967 Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Qu‚bec libre! Long live free Quebec!' A lot of pople are not happy at his remarks
- 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 Qubec 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.
- 1967 Race riot in Cambridge Maryland
- 1968 Number one hit on UK music charts - Des O'Connor - I Pretend
- 1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth
- 1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal
- 1971 Number one hit on UK music charts - T Rex - Get It On
- 1972 Bobby Ramirez drummer (White Trash), killed at 23 in bar brawl
- 1972 Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16
- 1974 After the Turkish invasion of Cyprus the Greek military junta collapses and democracy is restored.
- 1974 Visitor posting - Monica Marie was born Tucson, AZ - USA
- 1974 Chris Chubbock newscaster shoots self on air
- 1974 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
- 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.
- 1975 Apollo 18 returns to Earth
- 1976 Visitor posting - Shana C. D. was born The only woman i loved. - USA
- 1976 Number one hit on UK music charts - Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
- 1977 End of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
- 1978 "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premeirs in NYC
- 1979 Archie Duncan actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65
- 1980 Peter Sellers dies at 54
- 1980 Visitor posting - July 24, 1980 HEATHER MEADOWS PETROSKY is born. - USA
- 1981 Visitor posting - India's J. Selva Muthu Kumaran born today - India
- 1982 Heavy massive rain and mudslide occurred, some bridge destroyed at Nagasaki, Japan, 299 killed.
- 1983 Visitor posting - July 24, 1983- Donald F. was born (My one and only love) - USA
- 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".
- 1984 Seve Ballesteros wins the British Open
- 1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
- 1986 SF Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage
- 1987 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released
- 1988 Visitor posting - July 24, 1988 HEATHER MEADOWS PETROSKY is born. - USA
- 1988 US & Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
- 1990 Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait/Iraq border.
- 1990 Ms. Magazine hits the newstands again after an 8 month haitus
- 1990 Visitor posting - Meagon L Hanauer was born
- 1991 Government of India announces the New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms.
- 1991 U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of the solar system
- 1992 Visitor posting - July 24, 1992 ZACHARY DEMETRIUS MARTIN WAS BORN
- 1993 Visitor posting - July 24, 1993 - Nikolas's Birthday!!!
- 1994 Visitor posting - Ashleyy was born! :) thing 2 is ahhmazingg! :)
- 1994 Visitor posting - Emily Logsdon's Birthday!!! - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - Chris M. was born in Nevada.
- 1995 Visitor posting - July 24 1995 Amanda was born!
- 1995 Visitor posting - July 24 , 1995 Katryne 0 . was born
- 1996 Visitor posting - Rachel was born! - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - ediggy was born - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - Joey's Birthday
- 1997 Visitor posting - Bailey wuz born - USA
- 1998 Russell 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.
- 2000 Visitor posting - July 24th 2000 Jose and Lucy got married
- 2000 Visitor posting - Jacob Micah Singer & Benjamin Mac Singer were born in California - USA
- 2001 Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, was sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, and became the only monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
- 2001 Visitor posting - Alex klink mable born - USA [email protected]
- 2001 The Taiwan Solidarity Union is established.
- 2002 James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
- 2005 Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
- 2007 Libya frees all six of the Medics in the HIV trial in Libya.
- 2008 Visitor posting - July 24 2008 Zoey Stamps was born in Wichita, Kansas @ 1:45PM to Katherine and Joshua!
- 2010 Visitor posting - Audrey Belle Shea was born at 12:50 a.m. - USA
- 2010 Visitor posting - Emerson Grace Mitchum born. My pets are Ana, Baylun and Mason - USA
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