July 24

July 24 is the 205th day (206th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 160 days remaining.

Events

• 1567 - Mary Queen of Scots deposed
• 1847 - Salt Lake City founded
• 1901 - O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas
• 1910 - James MacGillivray[?] publishes first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News[?]
• 1927 - The Menin Gate[?] war memorial is unveiled at Ypres
• 1943 - Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Italian Grand Council, replaced by Pietro Badoglio
• 1959 - Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev have a "kitchen debate"
• 1969 - Apollo 11 returns to Earth.

Births

• 1725 - John Newton cleric, songwriter (Amazing Grace) (+ 1807)
• 1783 - Simon Bolívar, South American liberator (+ 1830)
• 1802 - Alexandre Dumas pere (La Pailleterie), playwright, novelist (+ 1870)
• 1860 - Alfons Mucha, graphic artist (+ 1939)
• 1864 - Frank Wedekind[?], dramatist, lyricist, narrator (+ 1918)
• 1878 - Lord Dunsany, writer
• 1896 - Hermann Kasack[?], writer (+ 1966)
• 1898 - Amelia Earhart, aviator (first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic) (+ 1937 (disappeared))
• 1908 - Cootie Williams[?], trumpeter
• 1916 - John D. MacDonald[?], novelist, (+ 1986)
• 1926 - Hans Günter Winkler[?], equestrian jumper
• 1933 - Doug Sanders[?], golfer
• 1934 - Rudy Collins[?], drummer for the Dizzy Gillespie quintet
• 1935 - Pat Oliphant[?], political cartoonist
• 1936 - Ruth Buzzi[?], comedienne
• 1942 - Chris Sarandon, actor
• 1947 - Robert Hays[?], actor
• 1949 - Michael Richards, comedian
• 1951 - Lynda Carter[?], actress
• 1952 - Gus Van Sant, film director
• 1957 - Pam Tillis[?], country and western singer
• 1963 - Karl Malone[?], National Basketball Association player
• 1964 - Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball player
• 1965 - Kadeem Hardison[?], actor
• 1968 - Laura Leighton[?], actress
• 1970 - Jennifer Lopez, actress, singer
• 1982 - Anna Paquin[?], actress

Deaths

• 1862 - Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States
• 1965 - Constance Bennett[?], actress
• 1980 - Peter Sellers, actor
• 1991 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, author, received Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978
• 1996 - Mohammed Farah Aidid, Somali warlord

Holidays and observances

• Ecuador - Simon Bolívar Day
• Utah - Pioneer Day (1847)
• Vanuatu - Children's Day
• Venezuela - Birth of the Libertador (Simon Bolívar Day)
• Ancient Latvia - Jekaupa Diena held

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