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.
1651 Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va
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.
1847 The first members of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) arrive in Utah, settling in present-day Salt Lake City.
1866 Tennessee became the first Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.
1911 American explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas
1919 Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded)
1929 U.S. President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.
1937 Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
1952 Pres Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1959 Kitchen debate between Nixon and Khrushchev
Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev engage in a heated debate about capitalism and communism in the middle of a model kitchen set up for the American National Exhibition in Moscow.
1974 The Supreme Court rules that President Richard Nixon must surrender the Watergate tapes.
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.
1991 U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of the solar system
1998 The rash of mergers around the world continues to grow (Bigger is Better Mentality of Corporations) as Enron Corporation acquires British-based Wessex Water, PLC.
2002 Nine coal miners were trapped in a mine in Pennsylvania. All were rescued three days later.
2008 A gunman wounded three people at the South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, Arizona on this day.
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