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Menin Gate
Brigham Young
Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu- Bombing of Hamburg
Battle of Harlaw monument
The Detroit skyline as seen from Windsor, Ontario
Manmohan Singh
North face of the Eiger
Khrushchev and Nixon debating
Rescuers at the Santiago de Compostela derailment
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Simón Bolívar Day in Ecuador and Venezuela; | cleanup required |
| 1701 – French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac established Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit (depicted), which later grew into the city of Detroit. | lots of CN tags (44) |
| 1783 – The Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti and the Russian Empire signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, establishing Georgia as a protectorate of Russia. | lots of CN tags (7) |
| 1847 – Brigham Young led the first group of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley of Utah, at the time a part of Mexico. | neutrality issues |
| 1911 – In the Peruvian Andes, American explorer Hiram Bingham re-discovered Machu Picchu (pictured), then thought to be the "Lost City of the Incas". | refimprove sections |
| 1915 – The passenger ship SS Eastland rolled over while tied to a dock in the Chicago River, killing 844 passengers and crew, the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes. | refimprove section |
| 1927 – The Menin Gate war memorial in Ypres, Belgium, marking the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line during World War I, was unveiled. | refimprove section |
| 1929 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact, an international treaty renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, went into effect. | featured on August 27 |
| 1938 – A combined German–Austrian team became the first team to climb the north face of the Eiger, one of the six great north faces of the Alps. | multiple issues |
| 1943 – Second World War: RAF Bomber Command began Operation Gomorrah, the strategic bombing of Hamburg, Germany, eventually killing at least 50,000 and leaving over a million others homeless. | refimprove section |
| 1963 – Bluenose II, a replica fishing schooner and major Canadian symbol, was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. | lots of CN tags (6) |
| 1977 – The Libyan–Egyptian War, a short border war between the two nations, ended after the combatants agreed to a ceasefire brokered by Algeria. | featured on July 21 |
| 1987 – Iran–Iraq War: In opposition to the American plan to protect Kuwaiti tankers, Iran laid mines and damaged the SS Bridgeton, resulting in a propaganda victory for Iran. | page numbers needed |
| 1991 – The government of P. V. Narasimha Rao and his finance minister Manmohan Singh introduced reforms that began the ongoing economic liberalisation in India. | cleanup required, refimprove section |
| 2001 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Fourteen members of the Black Tigers squadron of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam carried out a suicide attack on Bandaranaike International Airport, destroying eight military aircraft and three passenger jets. | refimprove |
| 2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, was sworn in as prime minister of Bulgaria, becoming one of the first monarchs in history to regain political power through a democratic election to a different office. | unreferenced sections |
| 2002 – Having been convicted of accepting bribes, income tax evasion, and racketeering, James Traficant was expelled from the United States House of Representatives. | refimprove section |
| 2007 – The Libyan government extradited six foreign medical workers who were charged with conspiring to deliberately infect over 400 children with HIV in 1998. | unreferenced section |
| 2013 – A Spanish high-speed train derailed at Santiago de Compostela; 79 died and around 140 were injured. | lots of CN tags (7) |
Eligible
- 1910 – Ottoman forces captured the city of Shkodër to put down the Albanian revolt of 1910.
- 1959 – Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. vice president Richard Nixon held an impromptu debate at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow.
- 1998 – A gunman entered the United States Capitol and opened fire, killing two police officers.
- 2009 – The MV Arctic Sea, reportedly carrying timber, was allegedly boarded by hijackers off the coast of Sweden, but much speculation remains as to the actual cargo and events.
- 2014 – Fifty minutes after departing Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Air Algérie Flight 5017 disappeared from radar, and its wreckage was found the next day in Mali, with no survivors of the 116 people aboard.
- Born/died: Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid (d. 946) | Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury (b. 1660) | Prince William, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1689) | Princess Charlotte of Prussia (b. 1860) | Martin Van Buren (d. 1862) | Robert Graves (b. 1895) | Zelda Fitzgerald (b. 1900) | John William Finn (b. 1909) | Kini Kapahu Wilson (d. 1962) | Jennifer Lopez (b. 1969) | Torrie Wilson (b. 1975)
July 24: Pioneer Day in Utah (1847)
Charles de Gaulle
- 1411 – Scottish clansmen led by Donald of Islay, Lord of the Isles, and Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, fought the Battle of Harlaw near Inverurie, Scotland.
- 1923 – The Treaty of Lausanne was signed to settle the Anatolian part of the partition of the Ottoman Empire, establishing the boundaries of modern Turkey.
- 1967 – During a speech in Montreal, French president Charles de Gaulle (pictured) declared "Long live free Quebec!", a statement that was interpreted as support for Quebec independence from Canada.
- 1974 – Following the collapse of the Greek military junta, the Metapolitefsi period began as the country transitioned to a democratic government.
- 1980 – At the Moscow Olympics, Australia's swimming team, nicknamed the Quietly Confident Quartet, won the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay, the only time that the United States, which boycotted the games, has not won the event at the Olympics.
- John Salusbury (d. 1612)
- Bella Abzug (b. 1920)
- Marjorie Cameron (d. 1995)