July
24
Parents
Day
Parents’ Day is celebrated in the United States on the fourth
Sunday of July each year to recognize and promote parenting
as a crucial part of families and the wider community.
Parental
figures in the United States receive the recognition for the
role they play in their children’s lives on Parents’ Day. The
day aims to promote responsible parenting and to recognize positive
parental role models. It celebrates the special bonds of love
between parental figures and their children.
Events
July 24
1132 – Battle
of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the
Second Crusade.
1411 – Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland,
takes place.
1487 – Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban
on foreign beer.
1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the
Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the
name of Francis I of France.
1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced
by her 1-year-old son James VI.
1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post
at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit,
Michigan.
1715 – A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under Admiral Ubilla
leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, 9 of them sink
in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later,
treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
1814 – War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the
Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
1823 – Slavery is abolished in Chile.
1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon
pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment
of Salt Lake City. Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer
Day Utah state holiday and the Days of '47 Parade.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown – Confederate
General Jubal Anderson Early defeats Union troops led by General
George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah
Valley.
1866 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. State
to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after
serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1910 – The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting
down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the
Lost City of the Incas".
1915 – The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied
to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and
crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a
single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
1922 – The draft of The British Mandate of Palestine was formally
confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into
effect on 26 September 1923.
1923 – The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern
Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other
countries that fought in World War I.
1924 – Archeologist Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister
of Greece.
1927 – The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
1929 – The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument
of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris
on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
1931 – A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
kills 48 people.
1935 – The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi,
USSR.
1935 – The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures
to 109°F (44°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1937 – Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro
Boys".
1938 – First ascent of the Eiger north face.
1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and
Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans
by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons
of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed
280,000 buildings.
1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with
the launch of a Bumper rocket.
1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in
Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
1966 – Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan
along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones.
BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
1967 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President
Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal:
Vive le Québec libre! ("Long live free Quebec!").
The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence,
delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government
and many English Canadians.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the
Pacific Ocean.
1972 – Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
1974 – Watergate scandal: the United States Supreme Court unanimously
ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority
to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him
to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1974 – Constantine Karamanlis arrives in Greece following the
collapse of the Greek military junta, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi
era.
1977 – End of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
1980 – The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the Men's
4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only
time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
1982 – Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at
Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against
the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified
in the "Pine Tar Incident".
1990 – Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait-Iraq border.
1998 – Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States
Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later
ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when
he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming
the first monarch in history to regain political power through
democratic election to a different office.
2001 – Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil
Tiger commandos, all died in this attack. They destroyed 11
Aircraft (mostly military) and damaged 15, there are no civilian
casualties. This incident slowed down Sri Lankan economy.
2002 – Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United
States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
2005 – Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de
France.
2009 – The MV Arctic Sea, reportedly carrying a cargo of timber,
is allegedly hijacked in the North Sea by pirates, but much
speculation remains as to the actual cargo and events.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Charbel
Christina the Astonishing
Christina of Bolsena
Declán of Ardmore
Kinga of Poland
July 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Pioneer Day (Utah) and its related observances:
Stirling Settler Days (Stirling, Alberta)
Simón Bolívar Day (Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Bolivia)
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