July 24

July 24. An auspicious day.

On this date in:

• 2020: Regis Philbin, American actor and television host, dies.
• 1998: Bindi Irwin, Australian conservationist, zookeeper, and actress, born.
• 1991: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish American novelist and Nobel Prize laureate dies.
• 1988: Nichkhun, Thai American singer-songwriter and actor born.
• 1983: ‘Black July’ anti-Tamil riots began in Sri Lanka, killing 3,000, beginning Civil War.
• 1980: Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian, dies.
• 1974: Supreme Court unanimously ruled Pres. Nixon did not have authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes, ordered him to surrender them to special prosecutor.
• 1969: Jennifer Lopez, American actress, singer, and dancer born.
• 1969: Apollo 11 splashes down in Pacific Ocean after landing first humans on moon incl. Neil Armstrong.
• 1968: Kristin Chenoweth, American actress and singer, born.
• 1967: During state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declared “Vive le Québec libre!” (“Long live free Quebec!”), angering the Canadian government.
• 1959: U.S. Vice Pres. Nixon, Soviet Premier Khrushchev have “Kitchen Debate.”
• 1959: James Jay Dudley Luce born (Ohio).
• 1936: Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian, born.
• 1923: Treaty of Lausanne, settling boundaries of modern Turkey, signed in Switzerland by countries that fought in World War I.
• 1922: Draft of British Mandate on Palestine formally confirmed by League of Nations.
• 1920: Bella Abzug, American lawyer and politician, born
• 1911: Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas.”
• 1897: Amelia Earhart, American pilot and author, born (Kansas).
• 1886: Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author, born.
• 1862: Martin Van Buren, eighth President of the United States, dies.
• 1802: Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright born.
• 1783: Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan commander and second President of Venezuela born.
• 1660: Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, Lord High Treasurer born.