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This day in history: 24 July

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Key facts

304 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 24 July.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2025: Angara Airlines Flight 2311 crashes on approach to Tynda Airport, killing all 48 people on board.

Holidays and observances

Carnival of Awussu (Tunisia)

Children's Day (Vanuatu)

Christian feast day: Blessed Christina the Astonishing

Christian feast day: Blessed Mercè Prat i Prat

Christian feast day: Charbel (Maronite Church/Catholic Church)

Christian feast day: Christina of Bolsena

Christian feast day: Declán of Ardmore

Christian feast day: Euphrasia of Constantinople

Christian feast day: John Boste

Christian feast day: July 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Kinga (or Cunegunda) of Poland

Christian feast day: Menefrida of Cornwall

Events

2025Angara Airlines Flight 2311 crashes on approach to Tynda Airport, killing all 48 people on board.

2024A Saurya Airlines Bombardier CRJ200 crashes during takeoff from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, killing 18.

2019Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Jeremy Hunt in a leadership contest, succeeding Theresa May.

2014Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers. The wreckage is later found in Mali. All 116 people on board are killed.

2013Santiago de Compostela derailment: A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed limit at 190 km/h (120 mph), killing 78 passengers.

2012Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of Girkê Legê.

2009Aria Air Flight 1525 crashes at Mashhad International Airport, killing 16.

2001The Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, resulting in military and civilian casualties and destroyed aircraft.

1999Air Fiji flight 121 crashes while en route to Nadi, Fiji, killing all 17 people on board.

1998Russell 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.

1987Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbs Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak.

1987US supertanker SS Bridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC, causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.

1983George Brett, playing for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".

1983The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.

1982Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.

1980The 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 swimming event at Olympic level.

1977End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.

1974Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rules that President Richard Nixon does not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosec

1969Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.

1967During 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 angered the Canadian government and many Anglophon

1966Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.

1963The ship Bluenose II is launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The schooner is a major Canadian symbol.

1959At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".

1950Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.

1943World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 pe

1935The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (43 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee.

1929The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).

1927The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.

1924Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.

1923The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.

1922The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine is formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.

1915The passenger ship SS Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.

1911Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".

1910The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.

1901O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.

1866Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to Congress following the American Civil War.

1864American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown: Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.

1847After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.

1847Richard March Hoe, American inventor, patents the rotary-type printing press.

1712War of the Spanish Succession: The French under Marshal Villars win a decisive victory over Eugene of Savoy at Denain.

Born on this day

2001Drake London, American football player

2001Ryan Johnson, American ice hockey player

1998Bindi Irwin, Australian conservationist, zookeeper, and actress

1998Cailee Spaeny, American actress

1998Sophie Wotschke, Austrian politician

1996Joe Mixon, American football player

1995Kyle Kuzma, American basketball player

1995Meisei Chikara, Japanese sumo wrestler

1995Valentine Holmes, Australian rugby league player

1994Phillip Lindsay, American football player

1992Mikaël Kingsbury, Canadian skier

1991Elliot Rodger, English-American mass murderer (died 2014)

1991Emily Bett Rickards, Canadian actress

1991Trevor van Riemsdyk, American ice hockey player

1989Maurkice Pouncey, American football player

1988Han Seung-yeon, South Korean singer and dancer

1988Nichkhun, Thai-American singer-songwriter and actor

1988Ricky Petterd, Australian footballer

1987Mara Wilson, American actress

1987Nathan Gerbe, American ice hockey player

1987Zack Sabre Jr., English wrestler

1986Natalie Tran, Australian actress and online producer

1985Aries Merritt, American hurdler

1985Lukáš Rosol, Czech tennis player

1985Patrice Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player

1983Asami Mizukawa, Japanese actress

1983Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer and manager

1982Anna Paquin, Canadian-New Zealand actress

1982Elisabeth Moss, American actress

1982Mewelde Moore, American football player

1981Doug Bollinger, Australian cricketer

1981Nayib Bukele, Salvadoran politician, 81st President of El Salvador

1981Summer Glau, American actress

1980Joel Stroetzel, American guitarist

1979Jerrod Niemann, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1979Rose Byrne, Australian actress

1978Andy Irons, American surfer (died 2010)

1976Rafer Alston, American basketball player

1976Rashida Tlaib, American politician

1976Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese racing driver and manager

Died on this day

2025Cleo Laine, English singer and actress (born 1927)

2025Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler and actor (born 1953)

2024Dmytro Kiva, Ukrainian engineer and designer (born 1942)

2024Hamzah Haz, Indonesian journalist and politician, 9th Vice President of Indonesia (born 1940)

2024Shafin Ahmed, Bangladeshi bassist and singer-songwriter (born 1961)

2023George Alagiah, BBC News journalist and broadcaster (born 1955)

2023Trevor Francis, Britain's first "£1 million football player" (born 1954)

2022David Warner, English actor (born 1941)

2021Dale Snodgrass, United States Naval Aviator and air show performer (born 1949)

2021Rodney Alcala, American serial killer (born 1943)

2017Harshida Raval, Indian Gujarati playback singer

2016Marni Nixon, American actress and singer (born 1930)

2015Ingrid Sischy, South African-American journalist and critic (born 1952)

2015Peg Lynch, American actress and screenwriter (born 1916)

2014Dale Schlueter, American basketball player (born 1945)

2014Hans-Hermann Sprado, German journalist and author (born 1956)

2014Ik-Hwan Bae, Korean-American violinist and educator (born 1956)

2013Fred Dretske, American philosopher and academic (born 1932)

2013Garry Davis, American pilot and activist, created the World Passport (born 1921)

2013Pius Langa, South African lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of South Africa (born 1939)

2013Virginia E. Johnson, American psychologist and sexologist (born 1925)

2012Chad Everett, American actor and director (born 1937)

2012Gregorio Peces-Barba, Spanish jurist and politician (born 1938)

2012John Atta Mills, Ghanaian lawyer and politician, President of Ghana (born 1944)

2012Larry Hoppen, American singer and guitarist (born 1951)

2012Robert Ledley, American physiologist and physicist, invented the CT scanner (born 1926)

2012Sherman Hemsley, American actor and singer (born 1938)

2012Themo Lobos, Chilean author and illustrator (born 1928)

2011Dan Peek, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1950)

2011David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author (born 1961)

Quote of the day

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

attributed to Marcus Aurelius

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