Notable Historical Events on July 24th
July 24th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1132 |
Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. |
1148 |
Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade. |
1411 |
Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place. |
1487 |
Citizens of Leeuwarden Neth rebel against ban on foreign beer |
1534 |
Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France |
1567 |
Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate; her 1-year-old son becomes King James VI of Scots |
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 The Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate |
1683 |
1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord |
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 |
1758 |
George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess |
1783 |
Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia |
1793 |
France passes 1st copyright law |
1799 |
William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York |
1823 |
Slavery is abolished in Chile. |
1824 |
Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st 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. |
1833 |
HMS Beagle departs Maldonado Uruguay |
1847 |
Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT |
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 |
1863 |
Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia |
1864 |
Battle of Winchester, VA US1200 CS600 |
1866 |
Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union |
1870 |
1st trans-US rail service begins |
1877 |
1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers |
1883 |
Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt |
1886 |
China takes British protectorate of Burma |
1893 |
For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago |
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. |
1902 |
Victor Trumper scores a century for Australia before lunch 4th Test Cricket v England |
1902 |
In Turkey, the Sultan Abdul-Hamid, under pressure from within the Ottoman Empire, appoints a commission to consider reforms that might pacify Macedonian revolutionaries |
1905 |
Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) and Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany) sign the Björkö Treaty, whereby each country agrees to come to the other's defense if attacked by European powers |
1905 |
5th Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Wimbledon (5-0) |
1908 |
John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record) |
1908 |
After days of discussion with his ministers, Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey announces he is restoring the liberal constitution of 1876 and will become more responsive to demands of dissidents |
1909 |
Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates |
1910 |
Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull |
1911 |
Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas |
1911 |
Cleve's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3 |
1915 |
Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die |
1919 |
Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded) |
1921 |
Belgium's Leon Scieur wins Tour de France |
1923 |
Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne |
1925 |
John T Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in the "Scopes monkey trial", Dayton, Tennessee, fined $100 & costs |
1927 |
The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres. |
1929 |
NY to SF foot race ends (2½ months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde |
1929 |
President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war |
1931 |
George Gunn gets 183 & son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings |
1931 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6) |
1931 |
A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people. |
1933 |
German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe |
1934 |
1st ptarmigan hatched & reared in captivity, Ithaca, NY |
1935 |
1st greetings telegram sent in Britain |
1935 |
The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR. |
1936 |
118°F (48°C), Minden, Nebraska (state record) |
1936 |
121°F (49°C), near Alton, Kansas (state record) |
1936 |
Generals Mola & Cabanellas form Spanish anti-government |
1937 |
Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro |
1938 |
Instant coffee invented |
1940 |
1st illegal "Newsletter of Pieter It Hen" publishes in Netherlands |
1940 |
Linthorst Homan, de Quay & Einthoven forms Dutch Union |
1941 |
FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China |
1941 |
Nazis kill entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania |
1941 |
Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game |
1942 |
Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army" premieres in NYC |
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 |
1946 |
9 Spokane baseball players (Western League) die in a bus crash |
1946 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island |
1948 |
4 Duluth Minn Dukes (St Louis Cards Class C farm team) die in crash |
1948 |
Soviets blockades Berlin from west |
1949 |
Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5 |
1950 |
V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral |
1952 |
112°F (44°C), Louisville, Georgia (state record) |
1952 |
Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6) |
1952 |
US President Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike |
1953 |
KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Ali Sastroamidjojo of government resigns in Indonesia |
1955 |
Betty Jameson/Mary Faulk wins Virg Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament |
1956 |
Brendan Behan's "Quare Fellow" premieres in London |
1956 |
Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City |
1957 |
KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1958 |
14 people named 1st life peers in UK |
1958 |
Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again |
1958 |
Test Cricket debuts against NZ for Dexter, Illingworth & Subba Row |
1959 |
500,000th Dutch TV set registered |
1959 |
US VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate" |
1960 |
42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron |
1961 |
Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba |
1961 |
Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show |
1961 |
Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader |
1963 |
124 Unification church couples wed in Korea |
1963 |
Dutch government of Marijnen forms |
1964 |
-27) race riot in Rochester, New York, 4 killed |
1965 |
"Flora, the Red Menace" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 87 perfs |
1965 |
Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone" |
1965 |
Casey Stengel resigns as manager of NY Mets |
1965 |
Rock group "The Animals" 1st time in British charts |
1966 |
48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron |
1966 |
Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open |
1967 |
49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colo |
1967 |
Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana |
1967 |
Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Quebec 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 |
1967 |
Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game |
1968 |
Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances |
1969 |
Apollo 11 returns to Earth |
1969 |
Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game |
1969 |
Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal |
1970 |
International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule |
1970 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1971 |
WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1972 |
Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16 |
1972 |
Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces. |
1973 |
44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC |
1973 |
All star MVP: Bobby Bonds (SF Giants) |
1974 |
Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes |
1975 |
Apollo 18 returns to Earth |
1976 |
John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes |
1977 |
32nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy |
1977 |
Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881 |
1977 |
Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen |
1978 |
"Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premieres in NYC |
1978 |
Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe |
1978 |
Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games |
1978 |
Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner & Jackson |
1979 |
Pres Carter names Paul Volcker, pres of Federal Reserves |
1979 |
Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR |
1981 |
Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran |
1982 |
"Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" closes at E O'Neill NYC after 63 perfs |
1982 |
KHJ (LA) & KFRC (SF) become 2nd & 3rd stereo AM stations |
1982 |
Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299. |
1983 |
"Mame" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances |
1983 |
21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switz (2-1) |
1983 |
Lauren Howe wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
1983 |
Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France |
1983 |
Pine Tar Game: Brett's HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned) |
1983 |
Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America |
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 |
1987 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
1988 |
43rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann |
1988 |
US & Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
1989 |
Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America |
1990 |
Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus |
1990 |
US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait |
1991 |
Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign |
1991 |
U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system |
1992 |
Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (eff 3/1/93) |
1992 |
Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die |
1993 |
Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans |
1993 |
NY Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight |
1994 |
32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0) |
1994 |
49th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
1994 |
Asociación de Estados del Caribe (AEC) forms |
1994 |
Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India |
1994 |
Miguel Indurain wins Tour de France |
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. |
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. |
2001 |
An Iranian warship in the Caspian Sea threatens a BP oil exploration ship off the coast of Azerbaijan |
2002 |
James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1. |
2005 |
Lance Armstrong retires after winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France victory (stripped for doping in 2012) |
2007 |
Libya frees all six of the Medics in the HIV trial in Libya. |
2012 |
John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills |
2012 |
Four barrels containing 248 human fetuses are found in Sverdlovsk, Russia |
2013 |
22 are left dead after a conflict between the Knights Templar Cartel and Mexican police in Michoacan |
2013 |
80 people are killed and 140 are injured after a high-speed train derails in Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
2014 |
116 people are killed after Air Algérie Flight 5017 crashed in Mali |
2014 |
Fuad Masum is elected as the President of Iraq |
2014 |
Reuven Rivlin is sworn in as the President of Israel |
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