July 24

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on July 24. From 1900 until now. July 24 is under the sign of Leo. Famous birthdays on this day include Jennifer Lopez (1969), Rose Byrne (1979) and Anna Paquin (1982). Several movies were released around July 24 over the years, such as The Message in 1976 directed by Moustapha Akkad and Castle in the Sky in 1986 directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
But much more happened on July 24 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Utah - Pioneer Day (1847)
St. Ruffin
St. Wulfhad
St. David
St. Romanus, 2nd bishop of Rochester.
St. Lewine
St. Kinga/Cunegundes
St. Francis Solano
St. Saint Christina the Astonishing
Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least 9 saints: St. Lupus
Ancient Latvia - Jekaupa Diena held
Astrology: First day of sun sign Leo
Vanuatu - Children's Day
Ecuador - Sim=n Bolfvar Day
Venezuela - the Libertador (Sim=n Bolfvar Day)
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Events

2019 Somali Civil War: A suicide bomber detonates inside the office of Mogadishu's mayor Abdirahman Abdi Osman, killing six government officials. Osman is seriously injured in the attack and his condition is critical. (BBC)
2018 Israeli–Syrian military incidents during the Syrian Civil War: The Israel Defense Forces shoot down a Syrian Air Force jet near the Golan Heights after it reportedly crosses into the UNDOF zone near Israeli border. (BBC)
2017 War in Afghanistan: A suicide car bombing in the western part of Kabul kills at least 24 and injures more than 40 people. Afghan authorities say the target of the attack was a bus of civilian government workers from the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis criticizes The Pentagon for wasting US$28 million for Afghan woodland camouflage that did not match the country's terrain. (The Hill)
2016 Iraqi Civil War, Military intervention against ISIL: At least 21 are killed and more than 35 people injured in a suicide attack at one of the residential entrances to district Kadhimiyah, in northern Baghdad, Iraq. ISIL claims responsibility, as published in its official media. (CNN) (Iraqi News)
2015 Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War, Spillover of the Syrian Civil War: Turkish warplanes strike ISIS positions in northern Syria following an exchange of gunfire on the Turkish-Syrian border which left one Turkish soldier dead. The airstrikes are said to have killed as many as 35 ISIS militants. (Yahoo)
2014 Ukrainian Government forces recapture the city of Lysychansk from pro-Russian rebels. (Kyiv Post)
2013 Mexican Drug War:: Clashes between the Knights Templar Cartel and the Mexican federal police leave 22 dead in the state of Michoacán. According to government press reports, two of the dead were law enforcement officials, while the rest were cartel gunmen. (BBC)
2012 Hong Kong and China's Guangdong Province is hit by Category 4 Typhoon Vicente, resulting in scores of people injured, cancellation of flights and closure of businesses. (Reuters) (AAP via Herald Sun)
2011 A Thai military helicopter crashes near the Myanmar border, the third in a week, with three people feared dead in the latest crash. (AP via MSNBC)
2010 Over 80,000 people from around the world record their daily lives for submission to the YouTube documentary Life In A Day.
2009 The US Senate confirms Rosa Gumataotao Rios to serve as 43rd US treasurer.
2008 Ford Motor Company of the USA posts a record US$8.7 billion quarterly loss, due to slumping truck and SUV operations.
2007 Five mountain climbers freeze to death in the Italian Alps. (Reuters via News Limited)
2006 The United States Coast Guard and Alaska Air National Guard rescue twenty-three crew members from a capsized cargo ship south of the Aleutian Islands, on its way from Japan to Vancouver. (CBC)
2005 Francis Ona, the leader of the former Bougainville Revolutionary Army, has died in village on Bougainville following a short illness. Ona led the bloody 10-year secessionist war against Papua New Guinea that ended in 1997. (ABC News) (ABC News)
2004 An Iranian court clears Mohammad Reza Aghdam-Ahmadi, the intelligence agent accused of killing the Iranian-Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi, of charges of "semi-intentional murder", stating that the blood money should be paid from the state's treasury. (BBC)
2003 The United States' provisional authority in Iraq releases photos of what are presumably the dead bodies of Uday and Qusay Hussein in an attempt to show the Iraqi people proof that the two were actually killed in a U.S. military operation.
2002 Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
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.
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.
1997 Spree killer Andrew Cunanan commits suicide in a Miami houseboat.
1996 The Dehiwala train bombing kills 56 commuters outside Colombo.
1994 32nd Tennis Federation Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1993 Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown
1992 Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (eff 3 / 1 / 93)
1991 Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign
1990 Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus
1989 Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America
1988 US and Jamaica play scoreless tie, in second round of 1990 world soccer cup.
1987 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released
1986 San Francisco Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage.
1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai.
1983 Mame opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances
1982 KHJ (LA) and KFRC (San Francisco) become 2nd and 3rd stereo AM stations
1981 Mohammed Ali Rajai elected President of Iran
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.
1979 President Carter names Paul Volcker, President of Federal Reserves
1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after one is a born liar the other a convicted one comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson
1977 Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881
1976 John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes
1975 Apollo 18 returns to Earth.
1974 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
1973 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC
1972 Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at age 16.
1971 WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule
1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal
1967 49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine Country Club - Colorado
1966 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone Country Club - Akron
1965 Flora, the Red Menace closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 87 performances
1963 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1961 Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show
1960 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone Country Club - Akron
1959 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
1958 14 people named 1st life peers in the UK
1957 KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City
1955 Ali Sastroamidjojo of Government resigns in Indonesia
1953 KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6)
1950 V-2 / WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
1949 Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5
1948 4 Duluth Minn Dukes (St. Louis Cardinals Class C farm team) die in crash
1946 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash
1945 US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam
1944 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied / German positions
1943 RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)
1941 FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China
1940 1st illegal Newsletter of Pieter It Hen publishes in the Netherlands
1938 Instant coffee invented
1937 Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called ''Scottsboro Boys''.
1936 Gen Mola and Cabanellas form Spanish anti-Government
1935 1st greeting telegram sent in Britain
1934 1st ptarmigan hatched and reared in captivity, Ithaca, New York
1933 #1726 Hoffmeister, #2136 Jugta, #2158, #3957 Sugie and #4589 McDowell
1931 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6)
1929 New York to San Francisco footrace ends (2.5 months) winner is 60-year-old Monteverde.
1927 The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 and costs
1923 Allied Powers and Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne.
1920 French troops occupy Damascus and depose Faisal I of Syria as king.ref name=quotFrench occupation of Syriaquot
1919 Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded).
1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die.
1911 Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, ''the Lost City of the Incas''.
1910 Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull
1909 Brooklyn Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates
1908 John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record)
1901 O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1900 Race riot in New Orleans, two white policemen killed.
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