July 24
1847 - Brigham Young and the first members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) arrived at the Great Salt Lake.
1862 - Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States (1837-1841), died in Kinderhook, New York at age 79.
1866 - Tennessee became the first Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.
1911 - Yale University history professor Hiram Bingham III found the "Lost City of the Incas," Machu Picchu, in Peru.
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.
1937 - Charges against five Black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case were dropped by the state of Alabama.
1959 - During a visit to Moscow, Vice President Richard Nixon engaged in his famous "Kitchen Debate" with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
1969 - Apollo 11, returning from the first manned mission to the moon, splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Richard Nixon had to turn over White House tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1975 - An Apollo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific, completing a mission which included the first docking with a Soyuz capsule from the Soviet Union.
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 and more than 500 injured at the famed Love Parade festival in western Germany.
2013 - The House narrowly rejected a challenge to the National Security Agency's secret collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records.
2018 - The Trump administration said it would provide $12 billion in emergency relief to farmers hurt by trade disputes with China and other countries.
2019 - In a day of congressional testimony, Robert Mueller dismissed President Donald Trump's claim of "total exoneration" in Mueller's probe of Russia's 2016 election interference.
Birthdays
25 - Bindi Irwin (TV host)
30 - Lucas Adams (actor)
32 - Emily Bett Rickards (actress)
33 - Jay McGuiness (singer)
35 - Sarah Steele (actress)
36 - Mara Wilson (actress)
37 - Megan Park (actress)
39 - Sarah Greene (actress)
41 - Anna Paquin (actress)
41 - Elisabeth Moss (actress)
42 - Summer Glau (actress)
44 - Rose Byrne (actress)
48 - Eric Szmanda (actor)
48 - Torrie Wilson (professional wrestler/model)
54 - Rick Fox (actor/basketball player)
54 - Jennifer Lopez (actress/singer)
55 - John P. Navin Jr. (actor)
55 - Laura Leighton (actress)
55 - Kristin Chenoweth (actress/singer)
58 - Kadeem Hardison (actor)
59 - Barry Bonds (baseball player)
60 - Karl Malone (basketball player)
61 - Paul Ben-Victor (actor)
66 - Pam Tillis (singer)
72 - Lynda Carter (actress)
74 - Michael Richards (actor)
76 - Robert Hays (actor)
77 - Gallagher (comedian)
81 - Chris Sarandon (actor)
83 - Dan Hedaya (actor)
87 - Mark Goddard (actor)
88 - Pat Oliphant (cartoonist)
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Today in Sports History - July 24
1978 - Billy Martin was fired for the first of three times as the manager of the New York Yankees baseball team.
1984 - Quarterback Terry Bradshaw announced his retirement from football.
1992 - MLB commissioner Faye Vincent reinstates New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.
2005 - Lance Armstrong won his seventh consecutive Tour de France and announces his retirement. (He would have all of his titles stripped in 2012 on doping charges.)
2016 - Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
2022 - David Ortiz, Gil Hodges, Bud Fowler, Jim Kaat, Minnie Minoso and Buck O'Neil are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1847 - Brigham Young and the first members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) arrived at the Great Salt Lake.
1862 - Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States (1837-1841), died in Kinderhook, New York at age 79.
1866 - Tennessee became the first Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.
1911 - Yale University history professor Hiram Bingham III found the "Lost City of the Incas," Machu Picchu, in Peru.
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.
1937 - Charges against five Black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case were dropped by the state of Alabama.
1959 - During a visit to Moscow, Vice President Richard Nixon engaged in his famous "Kitchen Debate" with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
1969 - Apollo 11, returning from the first manned mission to the moon, splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Richard Nixon had to turn over White House tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1975 - An Apollo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific, completing a mission which included the first docking with a Soyuz capsule from the Soviet Union.
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 and more than 500 injured at the famed Love Parade festival in western Germany.
2013 - The House narrowly rejected a challenge to the National Security Agency's secret collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records.
2018 - The Trump administration said it would provide $12 billion in emergency relief to farmers hurt by trade disputes with China and other countries.
2019 - In a day of congressional testimony, Robert Mueller dismissed President Donald Trump's claim of "total exoneration" in Mueller's probe of Russia's 2016 election interference.
Birthdays
25 - Bindi Irwin (TV host)
30 - Lucas Adams (actor)
32 - Emily Bett Rickards (actress)
33 - Jay McGuiness (singer)
35 - Sarah Steele (actress)
36 - Mara Wilson (actress)
37 - Megan Park (actress)
39 - Sarah Greene (actress)
41 - Anna Paquin (actress)
41 - Elisabeth Moss (actress)
42 - Summer Glau (actress)
44 - Rose Byrne (actress)
48 - Eric Szmanda (actor)
48 - Torrie Wilson (professional wrestler/model)
54 - Rick Fox (actor/basketball player)
54 - Jennifer Lopez (actress/singer)
55 - John P. Navin Jr. (actor)
55 - Laura Leighton (actress)
55 - Kristin Chenoweth (actress/singer)
58 - Kadeem Hardison (actor)
59 - Barry Bonds (baseball player)
60 - Karl Malone (basketball player)
61 - Paul Ben-Victor (actor)
66 - Pam Tillis (singer)
72 - Lynda Carter (actress)
74 - Michael Richards (actor)
76 - Robert Hays (actor)
77 - Gallagher (comedian)
81 - Chris Sarandon (actor)
83 - Dan Hedaya (actor)
87 - Mark Goddard (actor)
88 - Pat Oliphant (cartoonist)
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Today in Sports History - July 24
1978 - Billy Martin was fired for the first of three times as the manager of the New York Yankees baseball team.
1984 - Quarterback Terry Bradshaw announced his retirement from football.
1992 - MLB commissioner Faye Vincent reinstates New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.
2005 - Lance Armstrong won his seventh consecutive Tour de France and announces his retirement. (He would have all of his titles stripped in 2012 on doping charges.)
2016 - Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
2022 - David Ortiz, Gil Hodges, Bud Fowler, Jim Kaat, Minnie Minoso and Buck O'Neil are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
