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Events on July 24

• 1847 Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a religious community of Mormons, establish the city of Salt Lake City and their own territory on the Great Salt Lake.
• 1911 In the Peruvian Andes, an expedition led by Hiram Bingham discovers the ruined city of Machu Picchu.
• 1929 The Briand-Kellogg Pact, named after US Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, enters into force.
• 1943 Operation Gomorrha, the destruction of Hamburg by Allied air raids, begins.
• 1953 Walter Ulbricht is elected First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
• 1959 Before live television cameras, Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Chruschtschow and US Vice President Richard Nixon express themselves in the Kitchen Debate in Moscow about the advantages and disadvantages of communism and capitalism.
• 1969 Apollo 11 lands in the Pacific Ocean.
• 1974 US President Richard Nixon is compelled by the Supreme Court of the United States in the Watergate affair to release tape recordings of conversations from the White House.
• 2005 The VII World Games, which have been taking place in Duisburg since July 14, end with the closing ceremony. The most successful nation in the non-Olympic sports competitions is Russia, ahead of Germany and Italy.
• 2010 A mass panic breaks out at the Love Parade in Duisburg, resulting in the death of 21 people and the injury of at least 652.
• 2019 Following Theresa May's resignation, Boris Johnson succeeds her as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 2020 The first Friday prayer takes place in Hagia Sophia following its reconversion into a mosque.

Born on July 24

• 1860 Alfons Mucha, Czech poster artist
• 1883 Katia Mann, wife of Thomas Mann
• 1900 Zelda Fitzgerald, American author
• 1921 Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian opera singer
• 1940 Dieter Bellmann, German actor
• 1941 Ernst Elitz, German journalist and university teacher
• 1951 Lynda Carter, American actress, singer, and beauty queen
• 1971 Dino Baggio, Italian football player
• 1982 Anna Paquin, Canadian-New Zealand actress
• 1983 Daniele De Rossi, Italian football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „24. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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