Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean. Date: July 24, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 24 📅 Events on this day in 1969 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: July 24, 1974 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 24 📅 Events on…
End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War. Date: July 24, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 24 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅 On This Day (Today)
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 swimming event at Olympic level. Date: July 24, 1980 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 24 📅 Events on this day in…
Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299. Date: July 24, 1982 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 24 📅 Events on this day in 1982 📅 On This Day (Today)
George Brett playing for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident". Date: July 24, 1983 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 24 📅 Events on this day in 1983 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War. Date: July 24, 1983 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 24 📅 Events on this day in 1983 📅 On This Day (Today)
Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak. Date: July 24, 1987 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 24 📅 Events on this day in 1987 📅 On This Day (Today)
US supertanker SS Bridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker. Date: July 24, 1987 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 24 📅 Events on this day in 1987 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: July 24, 1998 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 24 📅 Events on this day in 1998 📅 On This Day (Today)