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What happened in history on this day: July 24?
On July 24 in ...
- 1776 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed to Continental Congress committee on monetary policy.
- 1847 - Rotary-type printing press patented by Richard March Hoe, New York City.
- 1866 - Tennessee becomes first Confederate state re-admitted to USA.
- 1870 - First trans-US rail service begins.
- 1877 - First time US federal troops are used to combat strikers.
- 1900 - Race riot in New Orleans, Louisiana; two white policemen are killed.
- 1915 - Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die.
- 1919 - Race riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded).
- 1929 - New York to San Francisco footrace ends (2.5 months) winner is 60-year-old Monteverde.
- 1929 - President Herbert Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war.
- 1936 - 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Minden, Nebraska (state record hot).
- 1936 - 121 degrees F (49 degrees C), near Alton, Kansas (state record hot).
- 1950 - Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
- 1952 - 112 degrees F (44 degrees C), Louisville, Georgia (state record).
- 1952 - US President Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike.
- 1959 - US Vice President Richard Nixon argues with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate".
- 1961 - Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba.
- 1966 - The New Orleans Square area opens at Disneyland. It cost US$18 million, and occupies three acres. Walt Disney and the mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, dedicate the area.
- 1967 - Race riot in Cambridge, Maryland, USA.
- 1969 - Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1974 - US Supreme Court unanimously rules President Richard Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes.
- 1975 - Apollo 18 returns to Earth.
- 1986 - San Francisco Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage.
- 1987 - American-flagged Kuwaiti oil tanker Brigeton strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf, 120 miles southeast of Kuwait, causing damage but no injuries.
- 1998 - The US Senate votes 90 to 10 to make gambling on the Internet illegal.
- 1998 - Russell Eugene Weston Junior bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire, killing two police officers. He is later ruled incompetent to stand trial.
- 2008 - Ford Motor Company of the USA posts a record US$8.7 billion quarterly loss, due to slumping truck and SUV operations.
- 2009 - The US Senate confirms Rosa Gumataotao Rios to serve as 43rd US treasurer.
- 2014 - The US Mint in Philadelphia surpasses its record for number of coins struck in a single day: 42.44 million.
Births on July 24
- 1796 - Birth of John Middleton Clayton in Delaware, USA; Senator-Delaware, US Secretary of State (1849-50).
- 1842 - Birth of Ambrose Bierce in Ohio, USA; writer (Nuggets and Dust), satirist (Devil's Dictionary).
- 1913 - Birth of Johnny McAfee in Dallas, Texas, USA; singer (Sammy Kaye Show).
- 1916 - Birth of Bob Eberly in Mechanicsville, New York, USA; big band singer (Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra, "Green Eyes", "Tangerine and Amapola", "The Breeze and I", "Besame Mucho").
- 1918 - Birth of Ruggiero Ricci in San Francisco, California, USA; violinist (Paganini).
- 1920 - Birth of Alexander H Cohen in New York City, New York, USA; Broadway producer (Beyond the Fringe).
- 1930 - Birth of Jacqueline Brookes in Montclair, New Jersey, USA; actress (Nora - Jack and Mike, Another World, Secret Storm, As The World Turns).
- 1936 - Birth of Mark Goddard in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Don West - Lost in Space).
- 1936 - Birth of Ruth Buzzi in Westerly, Rhode Island, USA; comedienne (Laugh-In, Margie - That Girl).
- 1947 - Birth of Peter Serkin in New York City, New York, USA; pianist (Tashi).
- 1947 - Birth of Robert Hays in Bethesda, Maryland, USA; actor (Airplane!, Starman, Scandalous, FM, Iron Man).
- 1951 - Birth of Lynda Carter in Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Miss USA/actress (Wonder Woman, Billie Jo, Partners in Crime).
- 1963 - Birth of Paul Geary in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; heavy metal drummer (Extreme - "More Than Words").
- 1968 - Birth of John P Navin Junior in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Joey Elliot - Jennifer Slept Here).
- 1981 - Birth of Summer Glau; American actress (Firefly).
Deaths on July 24
- 1862 - Death of Martin Van Buren in Kinderhook, New York, USA; American lawyer, Senator for New York (1821-28), governor of New York (1829), Secretary of State (1829-31), US vice president (1833-37), 8th US President (1837-41) (dies 1862).
- 1974 - Chris Chubbock, US TV newscaster, shoots self on air.
- 1986 - Death of Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1899).
- 1997 - Death of William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (born 1906).
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