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Events

• 1487 (539 years ago) Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign beer.
• 1866 (160 years ago) Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to Congress following the American Civil War.
• 1923 (103 years ago) The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
• 1935 (91 years ago) The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (43 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee.
• 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
• 1967 (59 years ago) During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! ("Long live free Quebec!"); the statement angered the Canadian government and many Anglophone Canadians.
• 1983 (43 years ago) 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.
• 2014 (12 years ago) Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers. The wreckage is later found in Mali. All 116 people on board are killed.

Births

• 1783 (243 years ago) Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan commander and politician, second President of Venezuela, and liberation leader for much of South America (died 1830)
• 1802 (224 years ago) Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (died 1870)
• 1857 (169 years ago) Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)
• 1860 (166 years ago) Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter and illustrator (died 1939)
• 1895 (131 years ago) Robert Graves, English poet, novelist, critic (died 1985)
• 1897 (129 years ago) Amelia Earhart, American pilot and author (died 1937)
• 1969 (57 years ago) Jennifer Lopez, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1981 (45 years ago) Nayib Bukele, Salvadoran politician, 81st President of El Salvador

Deaths

• 1862 (164 years ago) Martin Van Buren, American lawyer and politician, eighth President of the United States (born 1782)
• 1927 (99 years ago) Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author (born 1892)
• 1957 (69 years ago) Sacha Guitry, French actor and director (born 1885)
• 1974 (52 years ago) James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)
• 1980 (46 years ago) Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian (born 1925)
• 1991 (35 years ago) Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
• 2012 (14 years ago) John Atta Mills, Ghanaian lawyer and politician, President of Ghana (born 1944)
• 2025 (a year ago) Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler and actor (born 1953)

All 304 events, births and deaths of July 24