July 24

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

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