Today is Wednesday, July 24, the 206th day of the 12 months 2024. There are 160 days left within the 12 months.
Today’s highlight of the story:
On July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts – two of whom were the primary people to walk on the moon – landed safely within the Pacific Ocean.
Also on this date:
In 1567, Mary Stuart was forced to abdicate the throne in favor of her one-year-old son James.
In 1866, Tennessee became the primary state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.
In 1915, the SS Eastland, a passenger ship carrying greater than 2,500 passengers, tipped over while docked on the Clark Street Bridge on the Chicago River. An estimated 844 people died within the disaster.
In 1932, the “Bonus Army,” a gaggle of hundreds of World War I veterans and their supporters who had gathered in Washington, DC to protest the U.S. government's refusal to honor the bonus certificates issued to veterans for his or her service, clashed with DC police and two protesting veterans were shot and killed.
In 1959, Vice President Richard Nixon had his famous “kitchen debate” with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev during a visit to Moscow.
In 1974, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon must turn over subpoenaed White House tapes to the special counsel within the Watergate scandal.
In 1975, an Apollo spacecraft splashed down within the Pacific Ocean, completing a mission that included the primary docking with a Soyuz capsule from the Soviet Union.
In 2010, 21 people were killed and over 500 injured in a mass panic in a tunnel crowded with techno music fans on the famous Love Parade festival in West Germany.
In 2013, 79 people were killed in a high-speed train crash outside Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain.
Today's birthdays:
- Comedian Ruth Buzzi is 88.
- Actor Dan Hedaya is 84.
- Actor Chris Sarandon is 82.
- Actor Robert Hays is 77.
- Actor Michael Richards is 75.
- Actress Lynda Carter is 73.
- Film director Gus Van Sant is 72.
- Former Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, is 71.
- Country singer Pam Tillis is 67.
- Karl Malone, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, is 61.
- Former MLB All-Star Barry Bonds is 60.
- Actor Kadeem Hardison is 59.
- Actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth is 56.
- Actress Laura Leighton is 56.
- Actress and singer Jennifer Lopez is 55.
- Director Patty Jenkins (“Wonder Woman”) is 53.
- Actor Eric Szmanda is 49.
- Actress Rose Byrne is 45.
- Country singer Jerrod Niemann is 45.
- Actress Elisabeth Moss is 42.
- Actress Anna Paquin is 42.
- Former NHL center Patrice Bergeron is 39.
- Actress Mara Wilson is 37.
- TV star Bindi Irwin is 26.
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