1684 – Expedition to establish French colony in Louisiana leaves La Rochelle with four ships led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (expedition is disastrous with only 15 survivors)
1931 – Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6)
1936 – 121°F (49°C), near Alton, Kansas (state record)
1940 – 1st illegal “Newsletter of Pieter It Hen” publishes in Netherlands
1977 – 64th Tour de France won by Bernard Thevenet of France
1978 – Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games
1979 – Boston Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR
1983 – 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switzerland (2-1)
1994 – Bodo kills 37 Muslims in Bashbari NE India
2015 – US President Barack Obama begins an historic 2 day visit to Kenya
Author: gil7
Today in History for 24th July 2024
Historical Events
1701 – French trade rand soldier Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, later becomes the city of Detroit
1952 – US President Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1991 – Universityof Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
1994 – Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, Frankfurt, Germany: Spain retains title with 3-0 win over US; Arantxa Sánchez Vicario clinches victory with 6-2, 6-1 win over Lindsay Davenport
2017 – Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner says he did not collude with Russia after meeting with Senate investigators
2019 – Special counsel Robert Mueller reports to the US Senate that President Trump was not exonerated of obstruction of justice and that Russia interfered in US election to benefit Trump
Famous Birthdays
1803 – Alexander Jackson Davis, American architect (gothic revivalist), born in New York City (d. 1892)
1867 – Edward Frederic Benson, English novelist, born in Wellington College, Berkshire, England (d. 1940)
1888 – Arthur Richardson, Australian cricket all-rounder (9 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 100, 12 wickets; South Australia, Western Australia), born in Sevenhill, Clare, Australia (d. 1973)
1930 – Boris Nikolayevich Belousov, Soviet cosmonaut, born in Khotimsk, Mogilyov Oblast (d. 1998)
1934 – Sante Kimes ‘Dragon Lady’, American convicted con artist and murderess, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (d. 2014)
1943 – Lyudmila Bragina, Russian athlete (Olympic gold USSR 1500m 1972 WR 4:01.38), born in Yekaterinburg, Russia
Famous Deaths
1758 – John Dyer, Welsh painter and poet (Grongar Hill), dies at 58
1900 – Ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59
1992 – Sam Berger, Canadian football owner (b. 1900)
1995 – Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, Ukrainian-Polish filmmaker and film educator (Polish Film School), dies at 94
2014 – Ik-Hwan Bae, South Korean-American violinist (Bargemusic, 1982-95) and educator (Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, 1999-2014), dies of cancer at 57
2023 – Trevor Francis, British soccer forward (52 caps; Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, Sampdoria, Sheffield Wed) and manager (QPR, Sheffield Wed, Birmingham City, Crystal Pal), dies of a heart attack at 69
Famous Deaths for 23rd July 2024
1948 – D.W. Griffith, American film director and producer (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 73
1955 – Cordell Hull, American Secretary of State (1933-44) who established United Nations (Nobel Peace Prize 1945), dies at 83
1955 – Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Un soir de joie), dies at 55
1964 – Jan de Vries, Dutch scholar of Germanic linguistics and Germanic mythology, dies at 74
1980 – Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
1994 – Aad Ivens, Dutch checkers player, dies at 80
1997 – Chūhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (Olympic gold triple jump 1932; only person to have held WRs in both long jump and triple jump), dies at 93
2002 – William Luther Pierce, American author and activist, dies at 68
2012 – Sally Ride, American astronaut and 1st American woman in space, dies of pancreatic cancer at 61
2021 – John Cornell, Australian screenwriter (Paul Hogan Show; Crocodile Dundee), and director (Crocodile Dundee II),. dies from complications related to Parkinson’s disease at 80
Historical Events for 23rd July 2024
1711 – Treaty of Pruth signed ending the Russo-Turkish War (1710-11), Azoz port returned to Ottoman control
1777 – Polish military leader Casimir Pulaski arrives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, to volunteer in the Continental Army cavalry
1834 – HMS Beagle anchors in Bay of Valparaiso (Chile)
1852 – Private John Brown becomes the 1st interment in the National Cemetery at the Presidio in San Francisco, California
1862 – President Lincoln names Army of the Potomac Gen. Henry Halleck as US Army General-in-Chief
1930 – Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with HRs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th)
1966 – Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens
1967 – 54th Tour de France won by Roger Pingeon of France
2009 – 42nd San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
2014 – 44 people are killed after TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashed into buildings in Taiwan
Today in History for 23rd July 2024
Historical Events
1848 – Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts
1966 – Frank Sinatra’s album “Strangers In The Night” hits #1 on the US charts, (Grammy for Record Of The Year and Best Male Vocal Performance)
1966 – Napoleon XIV releases “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!”
1969 – USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1982 – International Whaling Commission votes for total ban on commercial whaling (starting 1985)
1993 – NY Yankee Mark Hutton is 1st Australian to be a starting pitcher, He beats Angels 5-2; Yanks, Red Sox, Blue Jays 3 way tie for 1st
Famous Birthdays
1851 – Charles Bannerman, Australian cricket batsman (3 Tests; first centurion in Test history 165* 1877), born in Woolwich, Kent, England (d. 1930)
1937 – Dave Webster, American football player (led his football team to a National Championship in 1958), born in Atlanta, Texas (d. 2006)
1968 – Stephanie Seymour, American model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover-1988), born in San Diego, California
1969 – Fernanda Ribeiro, Portuguese 10k runner (Olympic gold 1996), born in Penafiel, Portugal
1982 – Schottzie Schott, dog mascot of Cincinnati Reds (d. 1991)
1994 – Kelvin Harrison Jr., American actor (Cyrano), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
Famous Deaths
1920 – Conrad Kohrs, German-born cattle rancher in Montana, dies at 84
1927 – William Ashley, English economic historian (The Economic Organisation of England), dies at 67
1980 – Mollie Steimer, American political prisoner and anarchist agitator, dies at 82
1983 – Georges Auric, French composer (one of Les Six), dies at 84
1996 – John Corner, scientist, dies at 80
2011 – Amy Winehouse, British singer-songwriter (“Stronger Than Me”; “Rehab”), dies from alcohol poisoning at 27
Famous Deaths for 22nd July 2024
1880 – Anna Caroline Oury (née De Belleville), German concert pianist and composer, dies at 74
1920 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)
1922 – John Motley Morehead III, American chemist (commercial production of calcium carbide, important for welding), dies at 67
1950 – Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (1921-30, and 1935-48), dies of pneumonia at 75
1980 – Fred Kaps [Abram Bongers], Dutch magician (ISM World Champion 1950, 1955 and 1961), dies of cancer at 54
1992 – Wayne McLaren, American stuntman, rodeo performer, model and actor best known for playing the Marlboro Man, dies of lung cancer at 51
2000 – Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author, dies at 74
2005 – Eugene Record American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
2020 – Carlton Haselrig, American football guard (Pro Bowl 1992; Pittsburgh Steelers) and wrestler (6 x NCAA titles; Pitt-Johnstown), dies from liver disease at 54
2022 – David Moores, British football executive (Chairman Liverpool FC 1991-2007; Honorary Life President), dies at 76
Historical Events for 22nd July 2024
1456 – Hungarian army under John Hunyadi defeats the forces of Ottoman Sultan Murad II in the Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade)
1926 – 105°F (41°C), Waterbury, Connecticut (state record)
1963 – In their second clash Sonny Liston once again KOs Floyd Patterson in round 1 at the Convention Center, Las Vegas to retain the world heavyweight boxing title
1972 – 59th Tour de France: Eddy Merckx of Belgium takes 4th consecutive general classification title as well as points and combination events
1995 – Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her two children in South Carolina
2012 – At least 77 people are killed by torrential rain in Beijing, China
2012 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Lytham and St. Annes: South African Ernie Els wins his 2nd Claret Jug, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Adam Scott of Australia
2016 – Japan’s Funai Electric announce they will manufacture world’s last videocassette this month
2018 – Lone gunman shooting kills 3 including gunman and injures 13 in Toronto, Canada
2023 – Taylor Swift concert in Seattle shakes the ground so hard it registers equivalent to magnitude 2.3 earthquake (does the same the next night)
Today in History for 22nd July 2024
Historical Events
1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada
1940 – Dutch Prime minister Dirk Jan De Geer meets Adolf Hitler seeking peace talks
1950 – Frank Worrell completes 261 v England at Trent Bridge
1959 – Ed Wood’s cult classic “Plan 9 From Outer Space”, called one of the worse films ever, premieres
1973 – 60th Tour de France won by Luis Ocana of Spain
2013 – Mike Babcock is again named head coach of Team Canada, this time for the 2014 Winter Olympics (they would repeat as gold medalists)
Famous Birthdays
1889 – Frederick Preston Search, American cellist, composer and conductor (Bridge Builders), born in Pueblo, Colorado (d. 1959)
1930 – Ray Pohlman, American session upright and electric bass guitarist and arranger (The Wrecking Crew), and jazz guitarist, born in Baker Township, Iowa (d. 1990)
1956 – Mick Pointer, British rock drummer (Marillion), born in Brill, Buckinghamshire, England
1972 – Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor known for “Eureka”, born in Montreal, Quebec
1979 – Lucas Luhr, German racing driver, born in Mülheim-Kärlich, West Germany
1997 – Field Cate, American actor (Pushing Daisies), and rock guitarist (Fencer), born in Burlington, Vermont
Famous Deaths
1789 – Joseph-François Foulon, French politician, dies at 74
1852 – Auguste Marmont, French marshal, dies at 77
1958 – Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian author and satirist, dies at 62
1992 – Wayne McLaren, American stuntman, rodeo performer, model and actor best known for playing the Marlboro Man, dies of lung cancer at 51
1995 – Percy Humphrey, American jazz trumpet player and bandleader in New Orleans, Louisiana, dies at 90
2012 – George A. Miller, American psychologist, dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 21st July 2024
1540 – John I Zapolyai, Prince of Transslvania and King of Hungary, dies
1946 – Gualberto Villarroel, Bolivian military officer (President of Bolivia 1943-46), killed and lynched in La Paz riots at 37
1957 – Rockley Wilson, English cricket spin bowler (1 Test, 3 wickets; Cambridge University, Yorkshire CCC), dies at 78
1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated by the IRA at 54
1986 – Virginia Hewitt, American actress (Carol-Space Patrol), dies of cancer at 60
1986 – Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
1991 – Theodore Wilson, American actor dies after a stroke at 47
2012 – James D. Ramage, American Naval Aviator in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War, dies at 96
2022 – Paddy Hopkirk, Irish rally driver (Monte Carlo Rally 1964), dies at 89
2022 – Uwe Seeler, German soccer striker (72 caps West Germany; Hamburger SV 476 games, 404 goals), dies at 85
Historical Events for 21st July 2024
976 – Emperor Otto II gives earl Leopold I, East Bavaria
1773 – Pope Clemens XIV bans Jesuits
1949 – US Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO)
1966 – USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1975 – NY Met Félix Millán hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays
1980 – Jean-Claude Droyer climbs Eiffel Tower in 2 hrs 18 mins
1995 – Brian Lara completes a pair for West Indians v Kent
1996 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Lytham and St. Annes: American Tom Lehman wins his only major championship by 2 strokes from Mark McCumber and Ernie Els; first American to win at Lytham since Bobby Jones 70 years earlier
2008 – Bosnian Serb politician Radovan Karadžić is arrested in Serbia and indicted by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia tribunal for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre
2013 – British Open Men’s Golf, Muirfield: Phil Mickelson wins his 5th major, by 3 strokes from Henrik Stenson of Sweden