July 24th

2013
Santiago de Compostela derailment. A high speed train travelling from Alvia high-speed train travelling from Madrid to Ferrol derailed on a curve killing 79 people and injuring over 100.
Santiago de Compostela derailment
2005
Lance Armstrong won a seventh consecutive Tour de France.
Lance Armstrong
2002
The U.S. House expelled Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, who had been convicted of bribery, racketeering and tax evasion.
James Traficant
1997
Retired Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan died at age 91.
William J. Brennan Jr.
1990
Iraq massed tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks along its border with Kuwait.
Iran–Iraq War
1979
A Miami jury convicted Ted Bundy of first-degree murder in the slayings of two Florida State University sorority sisters.
Ted Bundy
1977
The 4-day long Libyan-Egyptian War comes to an end. The border war began with thousands of Libyans marching towards Egypt's borders.
Libyan–Egyptian War
1974
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon had to turn over White House tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
NSA warrantless surveillance (2001–07)
1969
Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the moon, splashed down safely in the Pacific.
Apollo 8
1959
During a visit to the Soviet Union, Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev compared the merits of capitalism and communism in the "kitchen debate," so-named because it took place at a model kitchen at a U.S. exhibition.
Kitchen Debate
1937
The state of Alabama dropped charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case.
Scottsboro Boys
1925
John T. Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in the “Scopes monkey trial”, Dayton, Tennessee, fined $100 & costs.
John T. Scopes
1923
The Treaty of Lausanne is signed between Turkey and the countries that formed the Allied Powers in the First World War. Under the treaty,Turkey had to give up all the territorial claims made by the Ottoman Empire and agree to new borders.
Treaty of Lausanne
1911
American explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas.
Hiram Bingham III
1866
Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.
Joseph S. Fowler
1862
Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, died in Kinderhook, N.Y., at age 79.
List of Presidents of the United States by date of death
1847
Brigham Young and the first members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) arrived at the Great Salt Lake.
Pioneer Day (Utah)
1832
Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by Wyoming's South Pass.
South Pass (Wyoming)
1783
Revolutionary Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela.
Simón Bolívar
1534
Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France.
Jacques Cartier
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