This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
07/24/1380 Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint 
07/24/1686 Benedetto Marcello, composer 
07/24/1720 Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik 
07/24/1738 Elizabeth 'Betje' Wolff-Bekker, author/poet (Sara Burgerhart) 
07/24/1759 Victor Emanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21) 
07/24/1775 E Fran‡ois Vidocq, French police officer (police de s–ret‚) 
07/24/1783 Sim¢n Bol¡var, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule 
07/24/1796 Herman van Sonsbeeck, lawyer/statesman 
07/24/1796 John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, (Sen-Del)/US Sec of State (1849-50

07/24/1798 John Adams Dix, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879 
07/24/1802 Alexandre Dumas PŠre, France, author (3 Musketeers) 
07/24/1802 Ira Aldridge, famous African 
07/24/1803 Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic (Si j'‚tait roi) 
07/24/1803 Alexander Jackson Davis, US, architect (gothic revivalist) 
07/24/1815 Antoine T D'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia) 
07/24/1817 Adolf WAKF, grand duke of Luxembourg (1890-1905) 
07/24/1818 Felix Godefroid, composer 
07/24/1826 Francisco S L¢pez, [Tiran], president of Paraguay (1862-70) 
07/24/1827 Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 19

07/24/1832 Johann Christoph Lauterbach, violinist 
07/24/1841 Raimundo Madrazo y Garretta, painter 
07/24/1842 Ambrose Bierce, Ohio, writer (Nuggets & Dust) 
07/24/1857 Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1971) 
07/24/1858 Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920) 
07/24/1862 Johan A de Sleeve, [Adwaita], philosopher/classical/poet (Brahman) 
07/24/1864 B[enjamin] Frank[lin] Wedekind, German writer (Lulu) 
07/24/1864 Michel Gaston Carraud, composer 
07/24/1867 Frederic Benson, novelist 
07/24/1870 Fred Law Olmsted Jr, architect/landscaper 
07/24/1878 Lord Dunsany, [Edward JMD Plunkett], Irish sci-fi writer (Time & God

07/24/1880 Ernest Bloch, Geneva Switzerland, composer (MacBeth) 
07/24/1884 Abraham Rutgers, Dutch governor (Suriname, 1928-33) 
07/24/1886 Junichiro Tanizaki, Japan, writer (Snow Dusting) 
07/24/1894 Walter Schulthess, composer 
07/24/1895 Robert Graves, England, poet/historical novelist (I, Claudius) 
07/24/1896 Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom) 
07/24/1897 Elmar Berkovich, Hungarian/Dutch designer (Eindhoven Theatre) 
07/24/1897 Karl von Mechow, German writer (Auf Dem Wege, Vorsommer) 
07/24/1898 Amelia Earhart, US pilot, into the wild blue yonder 
07/24/1898 Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter 
07/24/1900 Zelda Fitzgerald, 1st wife of F Scott 
07/24/1902 Hans Chemin-Petit, composer 
07/24/1902 Nora Swinburne, England, actress (Quo Vardis, Dinner at Ritz, River)

07/24/1903 Robert Mills Delaney, composer 
07/24/1904 James R Killian Jr, MIT pres (1948-59) 
07/24/1910 Edward Ford, registrat Order of Merit 
07/24/1913 George H Brown, film producer 
07/24/1913 Johnny McAfee, Dallas Tx, singer (Sammy Kaye Show) 
07/24/1914 Edwin Mirvish, owner (Old Vic) 
07/24/1914 Frank Silvera, Kingston Jamaica, actor (High Chaparral) 
07/24/1914 Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto) 
07/24/1914 Riccardo Malipiero, composer 
07/24/1915 Frank Thistlethwaite, vice chancellor (University of East Anglia) 
07/24/1916 Bob Eberly, Mechanicsville NY, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band) 
07/24/1916 John D MacDonald, novelist (Deep Blue Goodbye) 
07/24/1917 Robert Farnon, composer/conductor/arranger 
07/24/1917 Simon Slattvik, Norway, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)

07/24/1918 Ruggiero Ricci, SF Calif, composer/violinist (Paganini) 
07/24/1920 Alexander H Cohen, NYC, Broadway producer (Beyond the Fringe) 
07/24/1920 Bella Abzug, (Rep-D-NY) 
07/24/1922 Charles Mathias Jr, (Sen-R-MD, 1969-86) 
07/24/1922 Leo Kraft, composer 
07/24/1924 David Loram, British vice-admiral (Supreme Allied Commander) 
07/24/1924 Glenn Loren Glasow, composer 
07/24/1924 Janine Charrat, French ballerina/choreographer 
07/24/1924 Lord Digby, lord-lt for Dorset 
07/24/1925 Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (Gran Sol, Caballo the Pica) 
07/24/1926 Hans-Gnther Winkler, Germany, equestrian jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)

07/24/1926 James Hele, high master (St Paul's School) 
07/24/1927 James J Howard, (Rep-D-NJ, 1965-  ) 
07/24/1927 Wilfred Josephs, composer 
07/24/1929 Peter Yates, director (Breaking Away, Bullitt) 
07/24/1930 Charles Hambro, CEO (Hambros) 
07/24/1930 Jacqueline Brookes, Montclair NJ, actress (Nora-Jack & Mike) 
07/24/1932 William D Ruckelshaus, headed Environmental Protection Agency 
07/24/1934 Jimmy Holiday, US singer (How Can I Forget) 
07/24/1934 Thomas Ambler, CEO (Texaco) 
07/24/1934 Willie Davis, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay) 
07/24/1935 Les Reed, songwriter 
07/24/1935 Pat Oliphant, cartoonist 
07/24/1935 Trevor Chinn, CEO (Lex) 
07/24/1936 Mark Goddard, Lowell Mass, actor (Don West-Lost in Space) 
07/24/1936 Ruth Buzzi, Westerly RI, comedienne (Laugh-In, Margie-That Girl) 
07/24/1937 Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education 
07/24/1937 Barry Lloyd Vercoe, composer 
07/24/1937 Quinlan Terry, architect 
07/24/1938 Colin Southgate, CEO (Thorn EMI) 
07/24/1939 Barry [Norman] Malzberg, sci-fi author (Revelations, Beyond Apollo) 
07/24/1939 Bob Lilly, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys) 
07/24/1939 Walter Bellamy, New Bern NC, NBA center (knicks/(Olympic-gold-1960) 
07/24/1940 Carroll A Campbell Jr, (Rep-R-SC, 1979-86) 
07/24/1942 Chris Sarandon, US, actor (Child's Play, Dog Day Afternoon, Lipstick

07/24/1943 Henk Vos, chemical analyst/Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber 
07/24/1943 Lyudmila Bragina, USSR, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1972) 
07/24/1944 Barbara Thompson, jazz musician/composer/bandleader 
07/24/1947 M Jacques Fouroux, rugby player 
07/24/1947 Michael Coveney, drama critic 
07/24/1947 Neil McIntosh, CEO (VSO, Center for British Teaching) 
07/24/1947 Peter Serkin, NYC, pianist (Tashi) 
07/24/1947 Robert Hays, Bethesda Md, actor (Airplane!, Starman, Scandalous) 
07/24/1947 Zaheer Abbas, Pakistani cricketer 
07/24/1949 Marjanne Sint, president (PvdA) 
07/24/1949 Michael Richards, LA Calif, comedian (Fridays, Kramer-Seinfeld) 
07/24/1950 Sam Behrens, actor (General Hospital, LA Law) 
07/24/1951 Chris Smith, Labour MP 
07/24/1951 Lynda Carter, Phoenix Az, Miss USA (1973)/actress (Wonder Woman) 
07/24/1952 Vin Weber, (Rep-R-MN, 1981-  ) 
07/24/1953 Jon Faddis, jazz trumpeter 
07/24/1953 Julian Brazier, MP 
07/24/1953 Steve Grogan, NFL QB (New England Patriots) 
07/24/1954 Philippe Alliot, race driver (grand prix) 
07/24/1955 Lubov Odinokova, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) 
07/24/1957 Dorothy Mays, playmate (Jul, 1979) 
07/24/1957 Pam Tillis, Plant City Fla, country singer (Melancholy Child) 
07/24/1959 Edward Liddie, Union Ga, Judo fighter (Olympic-bronze-1984) 
07/24/1963 Julie Krone, Benton Harbor Mich, jockey (1st female to win Belmont-9

07/24/1963 Kadeem Hardison, actor (Dwayne-Different World) 
07/24/1963 Karl Malone, LA, US basketball player (Utah Jazz/Olympic-gold-92) 
07/24/1963 Paul Geary, Boston Mass, heavy metal drummer (Extreme-More Than Word

07/24/1967 Jasper Teule, rock singer/bassist (Pilgrims-Once to Everything) 
07/24/1968 John P Navin Jr, Phila, actor (Joey Elliot-Jennifer Slept Here) 
07/24/1970 Stephane Adams, NJ, playmate (Nov, 1992) 
07/24/1976 Anita Nall, US, breaststroke swimmer (Olympics-gold-1992) 
07/24/1990 Evan James Springsteen, LA Calif, rocker Bruce Springsteen's son 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
07/24/1345 Jacob van Artevelde, statesman, murdered 
07/24/1652 Johann Weichmann, composer, dies at 32 
07/24/1704 Istv n Gy”ngy”si, Hungarian poet (Janos Kem‚ny), dies in battle 
07/24/1712 Cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies 
07/24/1739 Benedetto Marcello, composer, dies on 53rd birthday 
07/24/1756 George Vertue, engraver, dies 
07/24/1758 John Dyer, poet, dies 
07/24/1809 Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer, dies at 74 
07/24/1812 Joseph Schuster, composer, dies at 63 
07/24/1819 Sophie Gail, composer, dies at 43 
07/24/1826 Jacob Kimball, composer, dies at 65 
07/24/1831 Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, dies at 41 
07/24/1837 Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter 
07/24/1842 John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies 
07/24/1846 Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies at 81 
07/24/1846 Louis Napoleon, French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67

07/24/1862 Martin Van Buren, 8th pres (1837-41), dies in Kinderhook NY at 80 
07/24/1865 Johan Filip von Schantz, composer, dies at 30 
07/24/1868 George Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies 
07/24/1876 Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66 
07/24/1883 Matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, dies 
07/24/1900 Ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59 
07/24/1931 Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies 
07/24/1933 Max von Schillings, composer, dies at 65 
07/24/1936 James Philip Dunn, composer, dies at 52 
07/24/1944 Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed 
07/24/1947 Ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72 
07/24/1950 Robert W Lehnhoff, [Executioner of Groningen], SS fhrer, executed 
07/24/1954 Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90 
07/24/1957 Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers & Thieves), dies 
07/24/1960 Carl Deis, composer, dies at 77 
07/24/1960 Hans Albers, German actor (Blue Angel), dies 
07/24/1964 Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies 
07/24/1965 Constance Bennett, actress (Madame X, Topper), dies at 59 
07/24/1966 Montgomery Cliff, actor (From Here to Eternity), dies at 45 
07/24/1966 Tony Lema, US golfer, dies at 32 
07/24/1969 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64 
07/24/1971 Alan Rawsthorne, composer, dies at 66 
07/24/1972 Bobby Ramirez, drummer (White Trash), killed at 23 in bar brawl 
07/24/1974 Chris Chubbock, newscaster shoots self on air 
07/24/1974 James Chadwick, physicist, dies 
07/24/1979 Archie Duncan, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65 
07/24/1980 Peter Sellers, actor (Pink Panther, Mouse that Roared), dies at 54 
07/24/1986 Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87 
07/24/1991 Isaac B Singer, Polish/US writer (Yentl, Nobel 1978), dies at 87 
07/24/1992 Khaled Mahmoud Saeed, asst to Palestine terrorist Abu Nidal, murdere

07/24/1992 Lillian Oppenheimer, orgamist, dies at 93 of a heart attack 
07/24/1993 Ben[jamin S] Polak, Dutch physician/resistance fighter, dies 
07/24/1993 Francis Bouygues, French entrepreneur/billionaire, dies at 70 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
07/24/1534 Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France 
07/24/1554 Queen Maria of England marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem 
07/24/1567 James VI ascends to Scottish throne 
07/24/1577 Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Names 
07/24/1577 Treason of Don Juan in Brussels 
07/24/1581 States of Holland/Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange 
07/24/1651 Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va 
07/24/1673 Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate 
07/24/1683 1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord 
07/24/1692 French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein) 
07/24/1701 Fort Pontchartrain (Detroit) founded by Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac

07/24/1704 British Admiral Georg‚ Rooke takes Gibralter from Spain 
07/24/1712 Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army 
07/24/1758 George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess 
07/24/1783 Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia 
07/24/1799 William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York 
07/24/1833 HMS Beagle departs Maldonado Uruguay 
07/24/1847 Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT 
07/24/1847 Rotary-type printing press patented by Richard March Hoe, NYC 
07/24/1851 Window tax abolished in Britain 
07/24/1861 Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)VA  - CS Gen Wise retreats. 
07/24/1863 Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia 
07/24/1864 Battle of Winchester, VA US1200 CS600 
07/24/1866 Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union 
07/24/1870 1st trans-US rail service begins 
07/24/1877 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers 
07/24/1883 Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt 
07/24/1900 Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed 
07/24/1905 Treaty of Bj”rk”: Emperor Wilhelm II/czar Nicolaas II 
07/24/1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die 
07/24/1919 Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded) 
07/24/1921 Belgium's L‚on Scieur wins Tour de France 
07/24/1923 Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne 
07/24/1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs 
07/24/1929 NY to SF footrace ends (2« months) winner was 60 year old Monteverde

07/24/1929 Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war 
07/24/1931 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6) 
07/24/1934 1st ptarmigan hatched & reared in captivity, Ithaca, NY 
07/24/1935 1st greeting telegram sent in Britain 
07/24/1936 118ø F (48ø C), Minden, Nebraska (state record) 
07/24/1936 121ø F (49ø C), near Alton, Kansas (state record) 
07/24/1936 Gen Mola & Cabanellas form Spanish anti-govt 
07/24/1937 Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro

07/24/1940 1st illegal 'Newsletter of Pieter It Hen' published un Neth 
07/24/1940 Linthorst Homan, de Quay & Einthoven forms Dutch Union 
07/24/1943 RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead) 
07/24/1944 300 allied airplanes explode grenades in Normandy 
07/24/1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek 
07/24/1944 US troops land on Tinian 
07/24/1945 US destroyer Underhill torpedoes Guam 
07/24/1946 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash 
07/24/1948 4 Duluth Minn Dukes (St Louis Cards Class C farm team) die in crash 
07/24/1948 Soviets blockades Berlin from west 
07/24/1950 V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral 
07/24/1952 112øF (44øC), Louisville, Georgia (state record) 
07/24/1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6) 
07/24/1952 Pres Truman settles 53-day steel strike 
07/24/1953 KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting 
07/24/1955 Ali Sastroamidjojo of Govt resigns in Indonesia 
07/24/1957 KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting 
07/24/1958 14 people named 1st life peers in UK 
07/24/1959 500,000th Dutch TV set registered 
07/24/1959 VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as 'Kitchen Debate' 
07/24/1960 Jay Hebert wins PGA golf tournament 
07/24/1961 Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba 
07/24/1961 Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show 
07/24/1963 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea 
07/24/1963 Dutch govt of Marijnen forms 
07/24/1963 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson to retain heavyweight championship 
07/24/1964 -27) race riot in Rochester, New York, 4 killed 
07/24/1965 Bob Dylan release 'Like a Rolling Stone' 
07/24/1965 Casey Stengel resigns as manager of NY Mets 
07/24/1966 Al Geiberger wins PGA golf tournament 
07/24/1967 Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana 
07/24/1967 Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Qu‚bec libre! Long live free Quebec!

07/24/1967 Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City 
07/24/1967 Don January wins PGA golf tournament 
07/24/1967 Norway requests European Common Market membership 
07/24/1967 Race riot in Cambridge Maryland 
07/24/1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth 
07/24/1969 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game 
07/24/1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appea

07/24/1971 WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting 
07/24/1972 Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16 
07/24/1973 NL beats AL 7-1 in 44th All Star Game (Royals Stadium, KC) 
07/24/1973 Sue Berning wins US golf open for 3rd time 
07/24/1974 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes

07/24/1975 Apollo 18 returns to Earth 
07/24/1978 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' premeirs in NYC 
07/24/1979 Pres Carter names Paul Volcker, pres of Federal Reserves 
07/24/1979 Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR 
07/24/1981 Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran 
07/24/1982 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2763 Jeans 
07/24/1982 KHJ (LA) & KFRC (SF) become 2nd & 3rd stereo AM stations 
07/24/1983 Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France 
07/24/1983 Pine Tar Game, Brett's HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned) 
07/24/1984 Seve Ballesteros wins British Open 
07/24/1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai

07/24/1986 SF Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage 
07/24/1987 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released 
07/24/1988 US & Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer c

07/24/1990 Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month haitus 
07/24/1992 Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (eff 3/1/93

07/24/1992 Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die 
07/24/1993 Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fan

07/24/1993 NY Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight 
  
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