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Menin Gate
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Brigham Young
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Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
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Machu Picchu
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Machu Picchu
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Bombing of Hamburg
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Khrushchev and Nixon debating
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The Detroit skyline as seen from Windsor, Ontario
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Manmohan Singh
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North face of the Eiger
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Rescuers at the Santiago de Compostela derailment
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Isa Boletini, a leader of the Albanian revolt
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Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit
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Battle of Harlaw monument
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Charles de Gaulle
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Don Bradman, captain of the 1948 Australia cricket team
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Simón Bolívar Day in Ecuador and Venezuela; | cleanup required |
| 1701 – French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac established Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, which later grew into the city of Detroit. | lots of CN tags (29), bare URLs |
| 1783 – The Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti and the Russian Empire signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, establishing Georgia as a protectorate of Russia. | lots of CN tags (7) |
| 1847 – Brigham Young led the first group of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley of Utah, at the time a part of Mexico. | refimprove section |
| * 1910 – Ottoman forces captured the city of Shkodër, ending the Albanian revolt of 1910. | ref issues |
| 1911 – In the Peruvian Andes, American explorer Hiram Bingham re-discovered Machu Picchu, then thought to be the "Lost City of the Incas". | refimprove sections |
| 1915 – The passenger ship SS Eastland rolled over while tied to a dock in the Chicago River, killing 844 passengers and crew, the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes. | refimprove section |
| 1927 – The Menin Gate war memorial in Ypres, Belgium, marking the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line during World War I, was unveiled. | refimprove section |
| 1929 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact, an international treaty renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, went into effect. | featured on August 27 |
| 1938 – A combined German–Austrian team became the first team to climb the north face of the Eiger, one of the six great north faces of the Alps. | refimprove section |
| 1943 – Second World War: RAF Bomber Command began Operation Gomorrah, the strategic bombing of Hamburg, Germany, eventually killing at least 50,000 and leaving over a million others homeless. | refimprove section |
| 1963 – Bluenose II, a replica fishing schooner and major Canadian symbol, was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. | lots of CN tags in one section (4) |
| 1977 – The Libyan–Egyptian War, a short border war between the two nations, ended after the combatants agreed to a ceasefire brokered by Algeria. | featured on July 21 |
| 1991 – The government of P. V. Narasimha Rao and his finance minister Manmohan Singh introduced reforms that began the ongoing economic liberalisation in India. | expansion |
| 2001 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Fourteen members of the Black Tigers squadron of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam carried out a suicide attack on Bandaranaike International Airport, destroying eight military aircraft and three passenger jets. | refimprove |
| 2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, was sworn in as prime minister of Bulgaria, becoming one of the first monarchs in history to regain political power through a democratic election to a different office. | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| 2002 – Having been convicted of accepting bribes, income tax evasion, and racketeering, James Traficant was expelled from the United States House of Representatives. | refimprove section |
| 2007 – The Libyan government extradited six foreign medical workers who were charged with conspiring to deliberately infect over 400 children with HIV in 1998. | unreferenced section |
| 2009 – MV Arctic Sea declared to be carrying a cargo of timber, was allegedly boarded by hijackers off the coast of Sweden in an incident that remains incompletely explained. | [citation needed] x6, [dead link] x1 |
| 2013 – Santiago de Compostela derailment: a Spanish high-speed train derailed at Santiago de Compostela; 79 died and around 140 were injured. | lots of CN tags (7) |
Eligible
- 1411 – Scottish clansmen led by Donald of Islay, Lord of the Isles, and Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, fought the Battle of Harlaw (monument pictured) near Inverurie, Scotland.
- 1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicate in favour of her one-year-old son, who became James VI.
- 1920 – Franco-Syrian War: At the Battle of Maysalun forces of the Arab Kingdom of Syria were defeated by a French army moving to occupy the territory allocated to them by the San Remo conference.
- 1923 – The Treaty of Lausanne was signed to settle part of the partition of the Ottoman Empire, establishing the boundaries of Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.
- 1967 – During a speech in Montreal, French president Charles de Gaulle (pictured) declared "Long live free Quebec!", a statement that was interpreted as support for Quebec independence from Canada.
- 1948 – Australia set a world record for the highest successful run-chase in Test cricket history during the Fourth Test of the Ashes series against England.
- 1987 – Iran–Iraq War: In opposition to the American plan to protect Kuwaiti tankers, Iran laid mines and damaged the SS Bridgeton, resulting in a propaganda victory for Iran.
- 1998 – A gunman entered the United States Capitol and opened fire, killing two police officers.
- Born/died: | Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid|d|946| John Salusbury |d|1612| Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury|b|1660| Prince William, Duke of Gloucester|b|1689| Simón Bolívar|b|1783| Princess Charlotte of Prussia|b|1860| Martin Van Buren|d|1862| Robert Graves|b|1895| Zelda Fitzgerald|b|1900| John William Finn|b|1909| Bella Abzug|b|1920| Ada Baker|d|1949| Kini Kapahu Wilson|d|1962| Jennifer Lopez|b|1969| James Chadwick|d|1974| Torrie Wilson|b|1975| Marjorie Cameron|d|1995| Ingrid Sischy|d|2015|
July 24: Pioneer Day in Utah, United States (1847)
Konstantinos Karamanlis
- 1411 – Scottish clansmen led by Donald of Islay, Lord of the Isles, and Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, fought the Battle of Harlaw near Inverurie, Scotland.
- 1959 – Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. vice president Richard Nixon held an impromptu debate at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow.
- 1974 – The Metapolitefsi period began with Konstantinos Karamanlis (pictured) taking office as Prime Minister of Greece after the collapse of the military junta.
- 1980 – The Australian swimming team, nicknamed the Quietly Confident Quartet, won the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics.
- 2014 – Air Algérie Flight 5017 disappeared from radar shortly after take-off from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; its wreckage was found the following day in Mali with no survivors.
- Prince William, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1689)
- John William Finn (b. 1909)
- Ada Baker (d. 1949)
- James Chadwick (d. 1974)