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July 24, 2005 Lance Armstrong retires after winning his 7th straight Tours de France July 24, 1994 32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0) July 24, 1994 49th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan July 24, 1994 Asociacon de Estados del Caribe (AEC) forms July 24, 1994 Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India July 24, 1994 Miguel Indurain wins Tour de France July 24, 1993 Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown July 24, 1993 Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans July 24, 1993 New York Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight July 24, 1993 Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32) July 24, 1992 Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, eff 3/1/93 July 24, 1992 Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die July 24, 1991 Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign July 24, 1991 University of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system July 24, 1990 Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus July 24, 1990 U.S. warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait July 24, 1989 Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America July 24, 1988 43rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann July 24, 1988 U.S. and Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup July 24, 1987 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released July 24, 1987 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test July 24, 1986 San Francisco Federal jury convicts Navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage July 24, 1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai July 24, 1984 Steve Ballesteros wins British Open July 24, 1983 "Mame" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 41 performances July 24, 1983 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switz (2-1) July 24, 1983 Lauren Howe wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic July 24, 1983 Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France July 24, 1983 Pine Tar Game: Brett's HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned) July 24, 1983 Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America July 24, 1982 "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" closes at E O'Neill New York City after 63 performances July 24, 1982 KHJ (LA) and KFRC (SF) become 2nd and 3rd stereo AM stations July 24, 1981 Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran July 24, 1979 President Carter names Paul Volcker, President of Federal Reserves July 24, 1979 Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR July 24, 1978 "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premieres in New York City July 24, 1978 Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe July 24, 1978 Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games July 24, 1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson July 24, 1977 32nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy July 24, 1977 Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881 July 24, 1977 Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen July 24, 1976 John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes July 24, 1975 Apollo 18 returns to Earth July 24, 1974 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes July 24, 1973 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC July 24, 1973 All star MVP: Bobby Bonds for the San Francisco Giants July 24, 1972 Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16 July 24, 1971 WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting July 24, 1970 International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule July 24, 1970 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. July 24, 1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth July 24, 1969 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game July 24, 1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army on appeal July 24, 1968 Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances July 24, 1967 49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colo July 24, 1967 Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana July 24, 1967 Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Quebec libre! Long live free Quebec!' July 24, 1967 Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City July 24, 1967 Norway requests European Common Market membership July 24, 1967 Race riots in Cambridge Maryland July 24, 1967 Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game July 24, 1966 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron July 24, 1966 Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open July 24, 1965 "Flora, the Red Menace" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 87 performances July 24, 1965 Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone" July 24, 1965 Casey Stengel resigns as manager of New York Mets July 24, 1965 Rock group "Animals" 1st time on British charts July 24, 1963 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea July 24, 1963 Dutch government of Marijnen forms July 24, 1961 Beginning of a trend, a U.S. commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba July 24, 1961 Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show July 24, 1961 Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader July 24, 1960 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron July 24, 1959 500,000th Dutch TV set registered July 24, 1959 VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate" July 24, 1958 14 people named 1st life peers in U.K. July 24, 1958 Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again July 24, 1958 Test Cricket debuts against NZ for Dexter, Illingworth and Subba Row July 24, 1957 KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting July 24, 1957 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site July 24, 1956 Brendan Behan's "Quare Fellow," premieres in London July 24, 1956 Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City July 24, 1955 Ali Sastroamidjojo of Government resigns in Indonesia July 24, 1955 Betty Jameson/Mary Faulk wins Virg Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament July 24, 1953 KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, California (ABC) begins broadcasting July 24, 1952 112 degrees F (44 degrees C), Louisville, Georgia (state record) July 24, 1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6) July 24, 1952 President Truman settles 53-day steel strike July 24, 1950 V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral July 24, 1949 Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 home runs to beat Senators, 7-5 July 24, 1948 4 Duluth Minnesota Dukes (St. Louis Cardinals Class C farm team) die in crash July 24, 1948 Soviets blockades Berlin from west July 24, 1946 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash July 24, 1946 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island July 24, 1945 U.S. destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam July 24, 1944 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions July 24, 1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek July 24, 1944 U.S. troops land on Tinian July 24, 1943 RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead) July 24, 1942 Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army," premieres in New York City July 24, 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China July 24, 1941 Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania July 24, 1941 Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game July 24, 1940 1st illegal "Newsletter of Pieter It Hen" publishes in Netherlands July 24, 1940 Linthorst Homan, de Quay and Einthoven forms Dutch Union July 24, 1936 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Minden, Nebraska (state record) July 24, 1936 121 degrees F (49 degrees C), near Alton, Kansas (state record) July 24, 1936 Gen Mola and Cabanellas form Spanish anti-govt July 24, 1935 1st greeting telegram sent in Britain July 24, 1934 1st ptarmigan hatched and reared in captivity, Ithaca, New York July 24, 1933 German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe July 24, 1933 #1726 Hoffmeister, #2136 Jugta, #2158, #3957 Sugie and #4589 McDowell July 24, 1931 George Gunn gets 183 and son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings July 24, 1931 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6) July 24, 1929 New York to San Francisco foot race ends (2 months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde July 24, 1929 President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war July 24, 1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tennessee High School, fined $100 and costs July 24, 1923 Allied Powers and Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne July 24, 1921 Belgium's Leon Scieur wins Tour de France July 24, 1919 Race Riot in Washington D.C. (6 killed, 100 wounded) July 24, 1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die July 24, 1911 Hiram Bingham discovers Lost City of the Incas July 24, 1911 Cleve's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3 July 24, 1910 Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull July 24, 1909 Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates July 24, 1908 John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record) July 24, 1905 Treaty of Bjorko: Emperor Wilhelm II/czar Nicholas II July 24, 1902 Trumper a century before lunch 4th Test Cricket vs. England July 24, 1900 Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed July 24, 1893 For only time in history of U.S. Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago July 24, 1886 China takes British protectorate of Burma July 24, 1883 Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt July 24, 1877 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers July 24, 1870 1st trans-U.S. rail service begins July 24, 1866 Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union July 24, 1864 Battle of Winchester, Virginia US1200 CS600 July 24, 1863 Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia July 24, 1861 Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)Virginia - CS Gen Wise retreats July 24, 1851 Window tax abolished in Britain July 24, 1847 Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah July 24, 1847 Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, New York City July 24, 1833 HMS Beagle departs Maldonado Uruguay July 24, 1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson July 24, 1799 William Clark (of Lewis and Clark) is willed the slave York July 24, 1793 France passes 1st copyright law July 24, 1783 Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia July 24, 1758 George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess July 24, 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King James VIII July 24, 1712 Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army July 24, 1704 English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar July 24, 1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft. Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit July 24, 1692 French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein) July 24, 1683 1st settlers from Germany to U.S., leave aboard Concord July 24, 1673 Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate July 24, 1651 Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va July 24, 1581 States of Holland/Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange July 24, 1577 Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur July 24, 1577 Treason of Don Juan in Brussels July 24, 1567 Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate and 1-year-old James VI becomes King of Scotland July 24, 1554 Queen Maria of England marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem July 24, 1534 Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France July 24, 1487 Citizens of Leeuwarden Netherlands rebel against ban on foreign beer |