Today
in history
July 24
Alexandre Dumas
Amelia Earhart
Martin Van Buren
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| 1380 Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint was born |
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| 1487 Citizens of Leeuwarden Neth rebel against ban on foreign beer | ||
| 1534 Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France | ||
| 1554 Queen Maria of England marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem | ||
| 1567 Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate & 1-year-old James VI becomes King of Scotland | ||
| 1577 Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur | ||
| 1577 Treason of Don Juan in Brussels | ||
| 1581 States of Holland/Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange | ||
| 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 1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord | ||
| 1686 Benedetto Marcello, composer was born | ||
| 1692 French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein) | ||
| 1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit | ||
| 1704 English & Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar | ||
| 1712 Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army | ||
| 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King James VIII | ||
| 1758 George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess | ||
| 1759 Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21) was born | ||
| 1783 Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia | ||
| 1783 Simon Bolivar, the Latin American revolutionary, was born in Caracas, Venezuela |
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| 1793 France passes 1st copyright law | ||
| 1802 Alexandre Dumas, France, author (3 Musketeers) was born | ||
| 1847 Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, NYC | ||
| 1851 Window tax abolished in Britain | ||
| 1861 Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)VA - CS Gen Wise retreats | ||
| 1862 Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, died in Kinderhook, New York. | ||
| 1863 Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia | ||
| 1866 Tennessee became the first state readmitted to the Union after the Civil War. | ||
| 1870 1st trans-US rail service begins | ||
| 1883 Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt | ||
| 1886 China takes British protectorate of Burma | ||
| 1898 Amelia Earhart, US aviator (1st woman to solo Atlantic) was born | ||
| 1911 Hiram Bingham discovers Lost City of the Incas | ||
| 1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die | ||
| 1919 Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded) | ||
| 1923 Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne | ||
| 1929 U.S. President Herbert Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy. | ||
| 1935 1st greeting telegram sent in Britain | ||
| 1937 Alabama dropped charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the "Scottsboro Case." |
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| 1938 Instant coffee invented | ||
| 1941 FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China | ||
| 1941 Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz Lithuania | ||
| 1943 RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead) | ||
| 1944 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions | ||
| 1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek | ||
| 1944 US troops land on Tinian | ||
| 1945 US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam | ||
| 1958 14 people named 1st life peers in UK | ||
| 1959 Vice President Richard M. Nixon engaged in a "Kitchen Debate" with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at a U.S. exhibition in the Soviet Union. | ||
| 1963 Dutch govt of Marijnen forms | Martin Van Buren |
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| 1967 Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Qu‚bec libre! Long live free Quebec!' | ||
| 1967 Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City | ||
| 1967 Norway requests European Common Market membership | ||
| 1967 Race riots in Cambridge Maryland | ||
| 1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth | ||
| 1974 The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon must hand over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor. | ||
| 1979 Pres Carter names Paul Volcker, pres of Federal Reserves | ||
| 1981 Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran | ||
| 1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai | ||
| 1987 USSR performs underground nuclear Test | ||
| 1990 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait | ||
| 1991 Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign | ||
| 1998 A gunman burst into the U.S. Capitol, opening fire and killing two police officers before being shot and captured | ||
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