July 24 All Events |
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| July 24th, 2007 (July 24 2007) | Event | Libya frees all six of the Medics in the HIV trial in Libya. | |
| July 24th, 2007 (July 24 2007) | Death | Albert Ellis, American psychologist (born in 1913) | |
| July 24th, 2007 (July 24 2007) | Death | Chaney Kley, American Actor (born in 1972) | |
| July 24th, 2005 (July 24 2005) | Event | Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France. | |
| July 24th, 2005 (July 24 2005) | Death | Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (born in 1912) | |
| July 24th, 2002 (July 24 2002) | Event | James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1. | |
| July 24th, 2001 (July 24 2001) | Event | 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. | |
| July 24th, 2001 (July 24 2001) | Death | Georges Dor, Canadian author, composer, singer and playwright (born in 1931) | |
| July 24th, 2000 (July 24 2000) | Death | Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (born in 1925) | |
| July 24th, 1998 (July 24 1998) | Event | 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. | |
| July 24th, 1998 (July 24 1998) | Birth | Bindi Irwin, Australian entertainer and daughter of Steve Irwin | |
| July 24th, 1997 (July 24 1997) | Death | William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (born in 1906) | |
| July 24th, 1997 (July 24 1997) | Death | Saw Maung, Burmese dictator (born in 1928) | |
| July 24th, 1995 (July 24 1995) | Death | Jerry Lordan, English composer and singer (born in 1934) | |
| July 24th, 1995 (July 24 1995) | Death | George Rodger, British photojournalist (born in 1908) | |
| July 24th, 1993 (July 24 1993) | Death | Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (born in 1957) | |
| July 24th, 1992 (July 24 1992) | Death | Sam Berger, Canadian football owner (born in 1900) | |
| July 24th, 1992 (July 24 1992) | Death | Arletty, French singer and actress (born in 1898) | |
| July 24th, 1991 (July 24 1991) | Event | Government of India announces the New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India s economic reforms. | |
| July 24th, 1991 (July 24 1991) | Death | Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish author, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1904) | Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes |
| July 24th, 1990 (July 24 1990) | Event | Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait/Iraq border. | |
| July 24th, 1990 (July 24 1990) | Birth | Daveigh Chase, American actress | |
| July 24th, 1988 (July 24 1988) | Birth | Luke Mitchell, Scottish murderer | |
| July 24th, 1987 (July 24 1987) | Birth | Mara Wilson, American actress | |
| July 24th, 1986 (July 24 1986) | Birth | Andrei Lutai, Russian figure skater | |
| July 24th, 1986 (July 24 1986) | Death | Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1899) | |
| July 24th, 1985 (July 24 1985) | Birth | Teagan Presley, American pornographic actress | |
| July 24th, 1985 (July 24 1985) | Birth | Patrice Bergeron, Canadian hockey player | Ric Berger Quotes |
| July 24th, 1984 (July 24 1984) | Birth | John Dhani Lennevald, Swedish singer (former A-Teens member) | |
| July 24th, 1983 (July 24 1983) | Event | 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". | |
| July 24th, 1983 (July 24 1983) | Birth | Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer | |
| July 24th, 1982 (July 24 1982) | Event | Heavy massive rain and mudslide occurred, some bridge destroyed at Nagasaki, Japan, 299 killed. | Saki Quotes |
| July 24th, 1982 (July 24 1982) | Birth | Anna Paquin, Canadian-born actress | |
| July 24th, 1982 (July 24 1982) | Birth | Elise Crombez, Belgian supermodel | |
| July 24th, 1982 (July 24 1982) | Birth | Thiago Medeiros, Brazilian racing driver | |
| July 24th, 1981 (July 24 1981) | Birth | Summer Glau, American actress | |
| July 24th, 1980 (July 24 1980) | Birth | Gauge, American pornographic actress | |
| July 24th, 1980 (July 24 1980) | Birth | Wilfred Bungei, Kenyan middle-distance runner | |
| July 24th, 1980 (July 24 1980) | Death | Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (born in 1925) | Peter Sellers Quotes |
| July 24th, 1979 (July 24 1979) | Birth | Lee Si-yeon, South Korean actress | |
| July 24th, 1979 (July 24 1979) | Birth | Stat Quo, American rapper | |
| July 24th, 1979 (July 24 1979) | Birth | Valerio Scassellati, Italian racing driver | |
| July 24th, 1979 (July 24 1979) | Birth | Anne-Gaelle Sidot, French tennis player | |
| July 24th, 1979 (July 24 1979) | Birth | Jose Valverde, American baseball player | |
| July 24th, 1979 (July 24 1979) | Birth | Rose Byrne, Australian actress | |
| July 24th, 1977 (July 24 1977) | Event | End of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War. | |
| July 24th, 1977 (July 24 1977) | Birth | Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player | |
| July 24th, 1977 (July 24 1977) | Birth | Danny Dyer, English actor and television presenter | |
| July 24th, 1976 (July 24 1976) | Birth | Nate Bump, American baseball player | |
| July 24th, 1976 (July 24 1976) | Birth | Rafer Alston, American basketball player | |
| July 24th, 1976 (July 24 1976) | Birth | Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese Formula One driver | |
| July 24th, 1975 (July 24 1975) | Birth | Torrie Wilson, American wrestler | |
| July 24th, 1975 (July 24 1975) | Birth | Eric Szmanda, American actor | |
| July 24th, 1975 (July 24 1975) | Birth | Jamie Langenbrunner, American ice hockey player | |
| July 24th, 1974 (July 24 1974) | Event | 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. | |
| July 24th, 1974 (July 24 1974) | Event | After the Turkish invasion of Cyprus the Greek military junta collapses and democracy is restored. | |
| July 24th, 1974 (July 24 1974) | Death | James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1891) | |
| July 24th, 1972 (July 24 1972) | Event | Bugojno group caught by Croatian Army. | |
| July 24th, 1972 (July 24 1972) | Birth | Reverend Jen Miller, American poet, painter, writer and actress | |
| July 24th, 1971 (July 24 1971) | Birth | Dino Baggio, Italian footballer | |
| July 24th, 1971 (July 24 1971) | Birth | John Partridge, English singer | |
| July 24th, 1970 (July 24 1970) | Birth | Stephanie Adams, American model and author | |
| July 24th, 1970 (July 24 1970) | Death | Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (born in 1897) | |
| July 24th, 1969 (July 24 1969) | Event | Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean. | |
| July 24th, 1969 (July 24 1969) | Birth | Rick Fox, Bahamian basketball player | |
| July 24th, 1969 (July 24 1969) | Birth | Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer | |
| July 24th, 1969 (July 24 1969) | Death | Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (born in 1904) | |
| July 24th, 1968 (July 24 1968) | Birth | Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and actress | |
| July 24th, 1968 (July 24 1968) | Birth | Colleen Doran, American comic book writer and artist | |
| July 24th, 1968 (July 24 1968) | Birth | Laura Leighton, American actress | |
| July 24th, 1967 (July 24 1967) | Event | During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Quebec 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. | Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
| July 24th, 1966 (July 24 1966) | Event | 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. | |
| July 24th, 1966 (July 24 1966) | Birth | Martin Keown, English footballer | |
| July 24th, 1966 (July 24 1966) | Death | Tony Lema, American golfer (born in 1934) | |
| July 24th, 1965 (July 24 1965) | Event | 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. | |
| July 24th, 1965 (July 24 1965) | Birth | Kadeem Hardison, American actor | |
| July 24th, 1965 (July 24 1965) | Birth | Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player | |
| July 24th, 1965 (July 24 1965) | Death | Constance Bennett, American actress (born in 1904) | |
| July 24th, 1964 (July 24 1964) | Birth | Barry Bonds, American baseball player | |
| July 24th, 1964 (July 24 1964) | Birth | Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese author | |
| July 24th, 1963 (July 24 1963) | Birth | Paul Geary, American musician (Extreme) | |
| July 24th, 1963 (July 24 1963) | Birth | Julie Krone, American jockey | |
| July 24th, 1963 (July 24 1963) | Birth | Karl Malone, American basketball player | |
| July 24th, 1962 (July 24 1962) | Birth | Johnny O Connell, American race car driver | |
| July 24th, 1961 (July 24 1961) | Birth | Kerry Dixon, former English footballer | |
| July 24th, 1959 (July 24 1959) | Event | At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate." | Nikita Khrushchev Quotes |
| July 24th, 1957 (July 24 1957) | Birth | Pam Tillis, American singer | |
| July 24th, 1957 (July 24 1957) | Death | Sacha Guitry, French actor, director, screenwriter and playwright (born in 1885) | Sacha Guitry Quotes |
| July 24th, 1956 (July 24 1956) | Event | At New York City s Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together which started on July 25, 1946. | |
| July 24th, 1956 (July 24 1956) | Event | Khartoum University College is awarded university status becoming the University of Khartoum. | |
| July 24th, 1956 (July 24 1956) | Birth | Charles Crist, Governor of Florida | |
| July 24th, 1956 (July 24 1956) | Birth | Pat Finn, American game show host and producer | |
| July 24th, 1953 (July 24 1953) | Birth | Claire McCaskill, American politician, junior senator from Missouri | |
| July 24th, 1952 (July 24 1952) | Birth | Gus Van Sant, American film director | |
| July 24th, 1951 (July 24 1951) | Birth | Lynda Carter, American actress | |
| July 24th, 1951 (July 24 1951) | Birth | Chris Smith, British politician | |
| July 24th, 1950 (July 24 1950) | Event | A V-2 rocket makes the first launch from Kennedy Space Center | |
| July 24th, 1949 (July 24 1949) | Birth | Michael Richards, American comedian | |
| July 24th, 1949 (July 24 1949) | Birth | Yves Duteil, French singer and songwriter | |
| July 24th, 1947 (July 24 1947) | Birth | Robert Hays, American actor | |
| July 24th, 1947 (July 24 1947) | Birth | Peter Serkin, American pianist | |
| July 24th, 1947 (July 24 1947) | Birth | Zaheer Abbas, Pakistani cricketer | |
| July 24th, 1945 (July 24 1945) | Birth | Azim Premji, Indian businessman | |
| July 24th, 1943 (July 24 1943) | Event | 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. | |
| July 24th, 1942 (July 24 1942) | Birth | Chris Sarandon, American actor | |
| July 24th, 1940 (July 24 1940) | Birth | Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian | |
| July 24th, 1940 (July 24 1940) | Birth | Dan Hedaya, American actor | |
| July 24th, 1938 (July 24 1938) | Birth | Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist | Eugene J. Martin Quotes |
| July 24th, 1937 (July 24 1937) | Event | Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys." | |
| July 24th, 1936 (July 24 1936) | Birth | Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian | |
| July 24th, 1936 (July 24 1936) | Birth | Mark Goddard, American actor | |
| July 24th, 1935 (July 24 1935) | Event | The world s first children s railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR. | |
| July 24th, 1935 (July 24 1935) | Event | The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109øF (44øC) in Chicago and 104øF (40øC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | |
| July 24th, 1935 (July 24 1935) | Birth | Pat Oliphant, Australian political cartoonist | |
| July 24th, 1933 (July 24 1933) | Birth | Doug Sanders, American golfer | |
| July 24th, 1933 (July 24 1933) | Birth | John Aniston, American Actor | |
| July 24th, 1931 (July 24 1931) | Event | A fire at a home for aged people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people. | |
| July 24th, 1931 (July 24 1931) | Birth | Ermanno Olmi, Italian director | |
| July 24th, 1931 (July 24 1931) | Birth | Eric Tabarly, French sailor (died in 1998) | |
| July 24th, 1929 (July 24 1929) | Event | 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). | |
| July 24th, 1927 (July 24 1927) | Event | The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres. | |
| July 24th, 1927 (July 24 1927) | Death | Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (born in 1892) | |
| July 24th, 1924 (July 24 1924) | Event | The World Chess Federation FIDE is founded in Paris. | |
| July 24th, 1923 (July 24 1923) | Event | 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. | |
| July 24th, 1922 (July 24 1922) | Birth | Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer | |
| July 24th, 1921 (July 24 1921) | Birth | Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (died in 2008) | |
| July 24th, 1920 (July 24 1920) | Birth | Bella Abzug, U.S. Congresswoman from New York (died in 1998) | |
| July 24th, 1919 (July 24 1919) | Birth | Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice (died in 1999) | |
| July 24th, 1919 (July 24 1919) | Birth | Ferdinand Kubler, Swiss cyclist | |
| July 24th, 1918 (July 24 1918) | Birth | Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist | |
| July 24th, 1917 (July 24 1917) | Birth | Robert Farnon, Canadian-born conductor, composer, and arranger (died in 2005) | |
| July 24th, 1916 (July 24 1916) | Birth | John D. MacDonald, American novelist, (died in 1986) | |
| July 24th, 1915 (July 24 1915) | Event | Passenger ship Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 845 lives. | |
| July 24th, 1915 (July 24 1915) | Birth | Enrique Fernando, Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court (died in 2004) | |
| July 24th, 1914 (July 24 1914) | Birth | Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman, philanthropist and theatrical impresario (died in 2007) | |
| July 24th, 1911 (July 24 1911) | Event | Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu "the Lost City of the Incas". | |
| July 24th, 1910 (July 24 1910) | Birth | Harry Horner, American art director (died in 1994) | |
| July 24th, 1910 (July 24 1910) | Death | Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (born in 1841) | |
| July 24th, 1908 (July 24 1908) | Birth | Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (died in 1985) | |
| July 24th, 1904 (July 24 1904) | Birth | Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (died in 1991) | |
| July 24th, 1901 (July 24 1901) | Event | O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank. | O. Henry Quotes |
| July 24th, 1900 (July 24 1900) | Birth | Zelda Fitzgerald, American artist, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (died in 1948) | F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes |
| July 24th, 1899 (July 24 1899) | Birth | Chief Dan George, Meti actor (died in 1981) | |
| July 24th, 1897 (July 24 1897) | Birth | Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared 1937) | |
| July 24th, 1895 (July 24 1895) | Birth | Robert Graves, English author (died in 1985) | |
| July 24th, 1886 (July 24 1886) | Birth | Jun ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese novelist (died in 1965) | |
| July 24th, 1880 (July 24 1880) | Birth | Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (died in 1959) | |
| July 24th, 1880 (July 24 1880) | Birth | Kristian Hellstrom, Swedish athlete (died in 1946) | |
| July 24th, 1878 (July 24 1878) | Birth | Lord Dunsany, Irish writer (died in 1957) | |
| July 24th, 1877 (July 24 1877) | Birth | Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (died in 1954) | |
| July 24th, 1874 (July 24 1874) | Birth | Oswald Chambers, Christian writer (died in 1917) | Oswald Chambers Quotes |
| July 24th, 1867 (July 24 1867) | Birth | Edward Frederic Benson, English writer (died in 1940) | |
| July 24th, 1866 (July 24 1866) | Event | Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War. | |
| July 24th, 1864 (July 24 1864) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of KernstownConfederate General Jubal Early defeats Union army troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley. | |
| July 24th, 1864 (July 24 1864) | Birth | Frank Wedekind, German writer (died in 1918) | |
| July 24th, 1862 (July 24 1862) | Death | Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (born in 1782) | Martin Van Buren Quotes |
| July 24th, 1860 (July 24 1860) | Birth | Alfons Mucha, Czech artist (died in 1939) | |
| July 24th, 1857 (July 24 1857) | Birth | Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1943) | |
| July 24th, 1856 (July 24 1856) | Birth | Charles Emile Picard, French mathematician (died in 1941) | |
| July 24th, 1853 (July 24 1853) | Birth | William Gillette, American actor and author (died in 1937) | Eric Gill Quotes |
| July 24th, 1851 (July 24 1851) | Birth | Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (died in 1935) | |
| July 24th, 1847 (July 24 1847) | Event | 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. | |
| July 24th, 1832 (July 24 1832) | Event | Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming s South Pass. | The Rock Quotes |
| July 24th, 1826 (July 24 1826) | Birth | Ivan Bloch, military theorist and peace activist (died in 1902) | |
| July 24th, 1823 (July 24 1823) | Event | Slavery is abolished in Chile | |
| July 24th, 1821 (July 24 1821) | Birth | William Poole, Infamous member of New York City s Bowery Boys gang (died in 1855) | |
| July 24th, 1814 (July 24 1814) | Event | War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown s American invaders. | |
| July 24th, 1803 (July 24 1803) | Birth | Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (died in 1856) | |
| July 24th, 1802 (July 24 1802) | Birth | Alexandre Dumas, pere, French writer (died in 1870) | Alexandre Dumas Quotes |
| July 24th, 1794 (July 24 1794) | Birth | Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (died in 1865) | |
| July 24th, 1786 (July 24 1786) | Birth | Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (died in 1843) | |
| July 24th, 1783 (July 24 1783) | Birth | Simon Bolivar, South American liberator (died in 1830) | Simon Bolivar Quotes |
| July 24th, 1768 (July 24 1768) | Death | Nathanial Lardner, English theologian (born in 1684) | |
| July 24th, 1757 (July 24 1757) | Birth | Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (died in 1825) | |
| July 24th, 1739 (July 24 1739) | Death | Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (born in 1686) | |
| July 24th, 1725 (July 24 1725) | Birth | John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (died in 1807) | John Newton Quotes |
| July 24th, 1701 (July 24 1701) | Event | Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit. | |
| July 24th, 1660 (July 24 1660) | Birth | Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (died in 1718) | |
| July 24th, 1594 (July 24 1594) | Death | John Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (born in 1544) | |
| July 24th, 1568 (July 24 1568) | Death | Prince Don Carlos of Spain (born in 1545) | |
| July 24th, 1567 (July 24 1567) | Event | Mary Queen of Scots is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI. | |
| July 24th, 1534 (July 24 1534) | Event | French explorer Jacques Cartier planted a cross on the Gaspe Peninsula and took possession of the territory in the name of the King Francis I of France. | |
| July 24th, 1487 (July 24 1487) | Event | Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer. | |
| July 24th, 1411 (July 24 1411) | Event | Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles on Scottish soil. | |
| July 24th, 1240 (July 24 1240) | Death | Konrad von Thuringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights | |
| July 24th, 1148 (July 24 1148) | Event | Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade. | |
| July 24th, 1132 (July 24 1132) | Event | Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. | |
| July 24th, 1129 (July 24 1129) | Death | Shirakawa, Emperor of Japan (born in 1053) | |
| July 24th, 1115 (July 24 1115) | Death | Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (born in 1046) | |
