07-24-2005, 04:33 AM
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July 24th
1783 ~ Birthday of Simón Bolívar, South American liberator.
1802 ~ Birthday of Alexandre Dumas, French writer. (The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers)
1847 ~ After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young led 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
1898 ~ Birthday of Amelia Earhart, American Aviatrix.
1911 ~ Hiram Bingham re-discovered the Lost City of the Incas, Machu Picchu.
1929 ~ The Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy, went into effect. It was signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers.
1943 ~ Operation Gomorrah: The RAF Bomber Command bombed Hamburg by night, USAAF 8th Air Force Bomber Command by day. By the end of the operation, 9,000 tons of explosive & incendiary bombs created a firestorm which killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
1967 ~ During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declared in Montreal "Vive le Québec libre!" (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
1974 ~ Death of James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1980 ~ Death of Peter Sellers, Actor.
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