TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JULY 24
1534 Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France
1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned and forced to abdicate her throne to her 1-year-old son James VI.
1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac establishes Fort Pontchartrain for France at present-day Detroit, Michigan.
1766 At Fort Ontario, Canada, Ottawa chief Pontiac and William Johnson sign a peace agreement.
1791 Robespierre expels all Jacobins opposed to the principles of the French Revolution
1832 Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by Wyoming’s South Pass
1847 The first members of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) arrive in Utah, settling in present-day Salt Lake City.
1911 Hiram Bingham finds Manchu Picchu in the Andes. He was a professor of history at Yale, and was performing the expedition as a member of that faculty.
1929 U.S. President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.
1959 A series of debates, now popularly called the kitchen debates, occurred between U.S. President Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev in Moscow. Nixon was visiting a house built as part of an exhibit in the American National Exhibition.
1974 The Supreme Court rules that President Richard Nixon must surrender the Watergate tapes.
1977 The 4-day long Libyan-Egyptian War comes to an end The border war began with thousands of Libyans marching towards Egypt’s borders.
1979 Ted Bundy was found guilty of murdering two sorority sisters. Although his exact number of victims is unknown, Bundy confessed to more than 30 murders. He was executed in the electric chair on January 24th, 1989.
1990 Reports of mass Iraq troops on the Kuwait border raise concerns that Iraq is planning to invade the country which is one of the richest oil nations in the world. Just over one week later on August 2nd, 1990 Iraq did invade Kuwait and within two days most of the Kuwaiti Armed Forces and Iraq was in control.
2008 A gunman wounded three people at the South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, Arizona on this day.
2011 Mexican authorities arrest over one thousand people after a police raid in Ciudad Juarez. The raid was meant to crackdown on human trafficking and sexual exploitation in the city, one of the most violent cities in Mexico. Police also announced that they were able to rescue twenty underage women.
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