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Daily Calendar for Thursday, July 24, 2014

Born

  • SimΓ³n BolΓ­var (South American liberator) –
  • Alexandre Dumas (author) –
  • Ruth Buzzi (actress) –
  • Chris Sarandon (actor) –
  • Lynda Carter (actress) –
  • Karl Malone (basketball player) –
  • Barry Bonds (baseball player) –
  • Kristin Chenoweth (actress) –
  • Jennifer Lopez (singer & actress) –
  • Eric Szmanda (actor) –
  • Anna Paquin (actress) –
  • Bindi Irwin (animal activist; daughter of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin) –

Died

  • Martin Van Buren (8th U.S. president) –
  • Peter Sellers (actor) –
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer (writer) –
  • Sherman Hemsley (actor) –

Events

  • Mary Queen of Scots was deposed–
  • Brigham Young and followers arrived at Salt Lake, Utah–
  • Tennessee readmitted to Union after Civil War–
  • O. Henry released from Ohio State Penitentiary–
  • James MacGillivray published first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News–
  • Archaeologist Hiram Bingham β€œdiscovered” the Machu Picchu Incan ruins in Peru–
  • Steamer Eastland overturned in the Chicago River, killing 844 people–
  • Debut of Marvin the Martian in Bugs Bunny’s Haredevil Hare–
  • 67-pound 8-ounce muskellunge caught in Lac Courte Oreilles, Hayward, Wisconsin–
  • The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and ordered him to surrender the tapes–
  • Hulda Crooks climbed Mt Fuji at age 91–
  • 9-yr.-old Emma Houlston became youngest person to pilot plane across Canada (Victoria, B.C., to St. John’s, N.L.)–

Weather

  • Wahluke, Washington, tied a record high temperature of 118 degrees F–
  • 345,000 amperes of electricity were measured in a lightning stroke in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania–
  • The record for 24-hour rainfall in the United States was set in Alvin, Texas with 43 inches of rain from hurricane Claudette; the rain ended on July 25–
  • Hail the size of oranges fell on Calgary, Alberta.–
  • EF2 tornado struck Epsom, New Hampshire, destroying homes and causing at least one death–

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