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Events on the 24th of July in history

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24 Jul 1132 Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
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24 Jul 1148 Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
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24 Jul 1411 Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
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24 Jul 1487 Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against a ban on foreign beer.
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24 Jul 1534 Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France
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24 Jul 1534 French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
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24 Jul 1554 Queen Maria of England marries Philip, King of Naples / Jerusalem
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24 Jul 1567 Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate and 1-year-old James VI becomes King of Scotland
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24 Jul 1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.
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24 Jul 1577 Spanish army / German mercenaries conquer Namur
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24 Jul 1577 Treason of Don Juan in Brussels
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24 Jul 1581 States of Holland / Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange
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24 Jul 1651 Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Virginia
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24 Jul 1673 Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
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24 Jul 1683 1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard the Concord
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24 Jul 1692 French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein)
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24 Jul 1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.
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24 Jul 1701 French make 1st landing at site of Detroit
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24 Jul 1704 English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
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24 Jul 1704 Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain
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24 Jul 1712 Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army
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24 Jul 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King James VIII
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24 Jul 1758 George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess
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24 Jul 1783 The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
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24 Jul 1783 Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
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24 Jul 1793 France passes 1st copyright law
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24 Jul 1799 William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York
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24 Jul 1814 War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
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24 Jul 1823 Slavery is abolished in Chile.
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24 Jul 1823 In Maracaibo, Venezuela the naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo takes place, where Admiral José Prudencio Padilla, defeats the Spanish Navy, thus culminating the independence for the Gran Colombia.
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24 Jul 1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson
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24 Jul 1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public
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24 Jul 1833 HMS Beagle departs Maldonado Uruguay
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24 Jul 1847 Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah
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24 Jul 1847 Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, New York City
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24 Jul 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.
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24 Jul 1851 Window tax abolished in Britain
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24 Jul 1861 Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)VA - CS General Wise retreats
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24 Jul 1863 Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia
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24 Jul 1864 Battle of Winchester, VA US1200 CS600
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24 Jul 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown – Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.
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24 Jul 1866 Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
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24 Jul 1866 Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union
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24 Jul 1870 1st trans-US rail service begins
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24 Jul 1877 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers
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24 Jul 1883 Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt
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24 Jul 1886 China takes British protectorate of Burma
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24 Jul 1900 Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed
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24 Jul 1901 O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
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24 Jul 1908 John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record)
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24 Jul 1909 Brooklyn Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates
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24 Jul 1910 Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull
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24 Jul 1910 The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
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24 Jul 1911 Hiram Bingham discovers Lost City of the Incas
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24 Jul 1911 Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
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24 Jul 1915 The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
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24 Jul 1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die
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24 Jul 1919 Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded)
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24 Jul 1922 The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.
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24 Jul 1923 The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
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24 Jul 1923 Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne
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24 Jul 1924 Archeologist Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
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24 Jul 1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs
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24 Jul 1927 The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
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24 Jul 1929 President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
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24 Jul 1929 The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
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24 Jul 1929 NY to SF footrace ends (2
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24 Jul 1931 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6)
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24 Jul 1931 A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
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24 Jul 1933 #1726 Hoffmeister, #2136 Jugta, #2158, #3957 Sugie and #4589 McDowell
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24 Jul 1933 German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe
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24 Jul 1933 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1645 Waterfield, #1668 Hanna,
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24 Jul 1934 1st ptarmigan hatched and reared in captivity, Ithaca, New York
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24 Jul 1935 1st greeting telegram sent in Britain
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24 Jul 1935 The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (43°C) in Chicago, Illinois and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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24 Jul 1936 Gen Mola and Cabanellas form Spanish anti-Government
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24 Jul 1936 118
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24 Jul 1936 121
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24 Jul 1937 Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys".
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24 Jul 1937 Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
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24 Jul 1938 Instant coffee invented
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24 Jul 1938 First ascent of the Eiger north face.
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24 Jul 1940 1st illegal "Newsletter of Pieter It Hen" publishes in the Netherlands
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24 Jul 1940 Linthorst Homan, de Quay and Einthoven forms Dutch Union
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24 Jul 1941 FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China
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24 Jul 1941 Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz Lithuania
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24 Jul 1941 Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game
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24 Jul 1943 RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)
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24 Jul 1943 World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes 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.
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24 Jul 1944 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied / German positions
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24 Jul 1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
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24 Jul 1944 US troops land on Tinian
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24 Jul 1945 US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam
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24 Jul 1946 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash
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24 Jul 1946 US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
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24 Jul 1948 4 Duluth Minn Dukes (St. Louis Cardinals Class C farm team) die in crash
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24 Jul 1948 Soviets blockades Berlin from the west
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24 Jul 1949 Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5
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24 Jul 1950 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
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24 Jul 1950 V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
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24 Jul 1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6)
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24 Jul 1952 President Truman settles 53-day steel strike
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24 Jul 1952 112
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24 Jul 1953 KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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24 Jul 1955 Ali Sastroamidjojo of Government resigns in Indonesia
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24 Jul 1955 Betty Jameson / Mary Faulk wins Virg Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
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24 Jul 1956 Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City
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24 Jul 1957 KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
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24 Jul 1958 14 people named 1st life peers in the UK
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24 Jul 1958 Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again
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24 Jul 1959 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
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24 Jul 1959 VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"
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24 Jul 1959 At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
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24 Jul 1961 Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader
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24 Jul 1961 Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
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24 Jul 1961 Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of the Today Show
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24 Jul 1963 Dutch government of Marijnen forms
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24 Jul 1963 The iconic Bluenose II was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The schooner is a major Canadian symbol.
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24 Jul 1963 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea
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24 Jul 1963 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson to retain heavyweight championship
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24 Jul 1965 "Flora, the Red Menace" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 87 performances
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24 Jul 1965 Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"
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24 Jul 1965 Rock group "Animals" 1st time on British charts
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24 Jul 1965 Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"
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24 Jul 1965 Casey Stengel resigns as manager of the NY Mets
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24 Jul 1966 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone Country Club - Akron
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24 Jul 1966 Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
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24 Jul 1967 49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine Country Club - Colorado
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24 Jul 1967 Chinese army / air force / fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City
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24 Jul 1967 Norway requests European Common Market membership
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24 Jul 1967 Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game
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24 Jul 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.
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24 Jul 1967 Beatles sign a petition in The Times to legalize marijuana
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24 Jul 1967 Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Qu
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24 Jul 1967 Race riot in Cambridge Maryland
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24 Jul 1969 Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
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24 Jul 1969 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game
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24 Jul 1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal
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24 Jul 1970 International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule
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24 Jul 1971 WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
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24 Jul 1972 Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
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24 Jul 1972 Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16
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24 Jul 1973 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC
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24 Jul 1973 All star MVP: Bobby Bonds (SF Giants)
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24 Jul 1973 NL beats AL 7-1 in 44th All Star Game (Royals Stadium, KC)
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24 Jul 1973 Sue Berning wins US golf open for 3rd time
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24 Jul 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.
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24 Jul 1974 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
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24 Jul 1975 Apollo 18 returns to Earth
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24 Jul 1976 John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes
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24 Jul 1977 Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881
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24 Jul 1977 End of a four day long Libyan–Egyptian War.
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24 Jul 1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson
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24 Jul 1978 Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe
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24 Jul 1978 Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games
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24 Jul 1978 "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premeirs in NYC
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24 Jul 1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "the one is a born liar
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24 Jul 1979 President Carter names Paul Volcker, President of Federal Reserves
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24 Jul 1979 Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR
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24 Jul 1980 The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
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24 Jul 1981 Mohammed Ali Rajai elected President of Iran
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24 Jul 1982 KHJ (LA) and KFRC (San Francisco) become 2nd and 3rd stereo AM stations
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24 Jul 1982 Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
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24 Jul 1982 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2763 Jeans
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24 Jul 1983 "Mame" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances
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24 Jul 1983 21st Tennis Federation Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switzerland (2-1)
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24 Jul 1983 Lauren Howe wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
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24 Jul 1983 Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
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24 Jul 1983 Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
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24 Jul 1983 The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
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24 Jul 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".
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24 Jul 1983 Pine Tar Game, Brett's HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned)
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24 Jul 1984 Seve Ballesteros wins the British Open
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24 Jul 1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
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24 Jul 1986 San Francisco Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage
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24 Jul 1987 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released
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24 Jul 1988 US & Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
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24 Jul 1989 Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America
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24 Jul 1990 US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait
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24 Jul 1990 Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait-Iraq border.
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24 Jul 1990 Ms. Magazine hits the newstands again after an 8 month haitus
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24 Jul 1991 Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign
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24 Jul 1991 University of Manchester Scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
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24 Jul 1991 Manmohan Singh presents his budget speech to the Indian Parliament which led to economic liberalisation in India
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24 Jul 1991 U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of
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24 Jul 1992 Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (eff 3 / 1 / 93)
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24 Jul 1992 Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die
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24 Jul 1993 Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown
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24 Jul 1993 Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans
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24 Jul 1993 Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32)
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24 Jul 1993 New York Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight
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24 Jul 1994 32nd Tennis Federation Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
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24 Jul 1994 Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India
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24 Jul 1994 Miguel Indurain wins Tour de France
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24 Jul 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.
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24 Jul 2001 Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
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24 Jul 2001 Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack. They destroyed 11 Aircraft (mostly military) and damaged 15, there are no civilian casualties. This incident slowed down Sri Lankan economy.
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24 Jul 2002 Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
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