July 24
1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicate her throne to her one-year-old son, James.
1847 - Brigham Young and the first members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) arrived at the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.
1862 - Martin Van Buren, the 8th president of the United States, died in Kinderhook, New York.
1866 - Tennessee became the first Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.
1915 - The SS Eastland, a passenger ship carrying more than 2,500 people, rolled onto its side while docked at the Clark Street Bridge on the Chicago River. An estimated 844 people died in the disaster.
1932 - The "Bonus Army," a group of thousands of World War I veterans and their supporters who gathered in Washington, D.C. to protest the U.S. government's refusal to redeem cash bonus certificates given to the veterans for their service, clashed with D.C. police; two protesting veterans were shot and killed.
1937 - Charges against five Black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case were dropped.
1959 - During a visit to Moscow, Vice President Richard Nixon engaged in his famous "Kitchen Debate" with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
1969 - Apollo 11, the first manned space flight to the moon, successfully returned to earth with splash down in the Pacific Ocean.
1974 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that President Richard Nixon had to turn over White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
2002 - Nine coal miners were trapped in a mine in Pennsylvania. All were rescued three days later.
2010 - A stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans left 21 people dead at more than 500 injured at the famed Love Parade festival in western Germany.
2013 - A high-speed train crash outside Santiago de Compostela in Spain killed 79 people.
Birthdays
26 - Bindi Irwin (TV host)
27 - Cailee Spaeny (actress)
33 - Emily Rickards (actress)
37 - Mara Wilson (actress)
42 - Anna Paquin (actress)
42 - Elisabeth Moss (actress)
45 - Jerrod Niemann (singer)
45 - Rose Byrne (actress)
49 - Eric Szmanda (actor)
55 - Jennifer Lopez (actress/singer)
56 - Laura Leighton (actress)
56 - Kristin Chenoweth (actress/singer)
59 - Kadeem Hardison (actor)
60 - Barry Bonds (baseball player)
61 - Karl Malone (basketball player)
67 - Pam Tillis (singer)
73 - Lynda Carter (actress)
75 - Michael Richards (actor)
77 - Robert Hays (actor)
82 - Chris Sarandon (actor)
84 - Dan Hedaya (actor)
88 - Ruth Buzzi (comedian)
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Today in Sports History - July 24
1958 - Boston Red Sox star Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at fans.
1965 - Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengel retires from baseball.
1968 - Hoyt Wilhelm makes his 907th MLB pitching appearance, breaking the record of 906 set by Cy Young.
1978 - Billy Martin was fired for the first of three times as manager of the New York Yankees.
1983 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals has a home run against the New York Yankees disallowed in the "pine tar" incident. (The call was later overturned.)
1984 - Quarterback Terry Bradshaw announced his retirement from football.
2005 - Lance Armstrong won his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
2022 - David Ortiz, Gil Hodges, Bud Fowler, Jim Kaat, Minnie Minoso and Buck O'Neil are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
