1534 French explorer Jacques Cartier planted a wooden cross on Canada's Gaspé Peninsula on July 24, 1534. The 10-meter cross bearing the words "Long Live the King of France" took possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.he cross was a standard practice of European explorers during that era to signify territorial possession in the name of their respective countries and rulers.
1567 Mary, Queen of Scots agreed to abdicate in favor of her 1-year-old son James on July 24, 1567. Her brother Moray was made regent. The public was outraged that she'd taken the adventurer Earl of Bothwell as her third husband as he had been accused of being involved in the murder of her second husband Lord Darnley. Mary was imprisoned at Loch Leven Castle on an island in the middle of Loch Leven.
1588 Two Catholic priests, Nicholas Garlick and Robert Ludlam were arrested at Padley Manor House in Derby whilst offering Mass. Together with a fellow priest, Richard Simpson, they were hanged on July 24, 1588. They became known as the Padley martyrs.
1701 French adventurer Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac founded the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later became the city of Detroit on July 24, 1701. Cadillac and his party of French colonists began construction of a church two days later. It was named by the settlers in honor of the patron of France, Saint Anne, mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus, and the Detroit River. Ste. Anne de Détroit is the second oldest continuously operating Roman Catholic parish in the United States.
1775 Eugene Vidocq, the French father of modern criminal investigation, was born on July 24, 1775. He introduced record keeping and the science of ballistics into police work. Originally a crook, as a fugitive from French justice, Vidcoq offered his services as a police informer. Later Vidcoq became so successful at catching criminals that he was named the first chief of police at the Surete in 1811. Vidocq eventually directed a force of 28 detectives, all of whom were former criminals.
1783 Simon Bolivar was born in a house in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 24, 1783. His father, Coronel Don Juan Vicente Bolívar y Ponter, was a wealthy aristocratic landowner who had married into Spanish aristocracy. He led a campaign for independence, which freed much of South America from Spanish occupation. The country of Bolivia is named after him.
1802 Alexandre Dumas was born in Paris, France on July 24, 1802. He was the grandson of a woman slave from the Saint Domingue island (later renamed, Haiti), where his French father was born in 1762, and lived a large part of his life. Dumas wrote in a wide variety of genres and published a total of 100,000 pages in his lifetime. He is best known for his adventure novels with historical elements, which include The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Count of Monte Cristo.
1823 Venezuela was the first country in the region to start the struggle against Spanish rule, when a group of Caracas Creoles including Simón Bolívar deposed the Spanish colonial regime in 1810 and established the First Republic of Venezuela. In 1819 Simón Bolívar proclaimed the republic of Gran Columbia, which included Venezuela. the naval Battle of Lake Maracaib fought on July 23, 1823 resulted in the final expulsion of the Spanish from Gran Colombia.
1837 Robert Cocking was a British watercolor artist who tried to invent an improved parachute design. He was so convinced of his invention that on July 24, 1837, he tested it himself, hanging below a balloon and releasing the parachute in the height of 5,000 feet (1,525 meters). He was the first person who died in a parachute accident.
1847 The first Mormon pioneers made their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward on February 4, 1846. Led by Brigham Young, they endured an epic thousand-mile trek across desert country, reaching the valley of the Great Salt Lake in Utah on July 24, 1847. On their arrival the Mormon pioneers began to construct a society in isolation, based on their beliefs and values.
1851 In 1696, William III of England introduced a window tax to pay for the losses of the great recoinage of 1695. It cost two shillings per house, plus extra payments for every window more than ten. The tax was increased several times and eventually applied to all windows in excess of six. To avoid it, many householders would brick up all windows except six. The tax was finally repealed on July 24, 1851.
1862 After his presidency, Martin Van Buren emerged as an elder statesman and important anti-slavery leader, who led the Free Soil Party ticket in the 1848 presidential election. Van Buren developed pneumonia in the latter half of 1861 and was bedridden during the fall and winter of 1861–62. In July 1862, he had a serious asthma attack and began to weaken. Van Buren died at his home in Kinderhook, New York, of heart failure on July 24, 1862, aged 79.
1897 Pioneering aviation pilot Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas,. As a child, Milly spent long hours playing with her younger sister Pidge, climbing trees, hunting rats with a rifle and "belly-slamming" her sled downhill. Earhart wasn't impressed the first time she saw an airplane at the age of 10. In Last Flight, a collection of diary entries published posthumously, she recalled feeling unmoved by “a thing of rusty wire and wood” at the Iowa State Fair in 1908.
1908 Originally the marathon was 25 miles. It was extended to 26 miles for the July 24, 1908 London Olympics race so that King Edward's grandchildren could watch the start of the marathon and Queen Alexandria could see the finish from the royal box. The organizers decided on a course of 26 miles from the start at Windsor Castle to the royal entrance to the White City Stadium, followed by a lap of the track, finishing in front of the Royal Box.
1911 Machu Picchu, a 15th-century Inca citadel situated on a mountain ridge 2,430 metres (7,970 ft) above sea level was built at the height of the Incas. It was abandoned just over 100 years later as a belated result of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, Machu Picchu remained unknown to the outside world for the next few centuries. American explorer Hiram Bingham rediscovered Machu Picchu on July 24, 1911 when he was shown it by a local farmer Melchor Arteaga.
1915 The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsized on July 24, 1915 while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew were killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
1567 Mary, Queen of Scots agreed to abdicate in favor of her 1-year-old son James on July 24, 1567. Her brother Moray was made regent. The public was outraged that she'd taken the adventurer Earl of Bothwell as her third husband as he had been accused of being involved in the murder of her second husband Lord Darnley. Mary was imprisoned at Loch Leven Castle on an island in the middle of Loch Leven.
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| Loch Leven Castle By Jonathan Oldenbuck |
1588 Two Catholic priests, Nicholas Garlick and Robert Ludlam were arrested at Padley Manor House in Derby whilst offering Mass. Together with a fellow priest, Richard Simpson, they were hanged on July 24, 1588. They became known as the Padley martyrs.
1701 French adventurer Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac founded the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later became the city of Detroit on July 24, 1701. Cadillac and his party of French colonists began construction of a church two days later. It was named by the settlers in honor of the patron of France, Saint Anne, mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus, and the Detroit River. Ste. Anne de Détroit is the second oldest continuously operating Roman Catholic parish in the United States.
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| Ste. Anne de Détroit by Nheyob |
1775 Eugene Vidocq, the French father of modern criminal investigation, was born on July 24, 1775. He introduced record keeping and the science of ballistics into police work. Originally a crook, as a fugitive from French justice, Vidcoq offered his services as a police informer. Later Vidcoq became so successful at catching criminals that he was named the first chief of police at the Surete in 1811. Vidocq eventually directed a force of 28 detectives, all of whom were former criminals.
1783 Simon Bolivar was born in a house in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 24, 1783. His father, Coronel Don Juan Vicente Bolívar y Ponter, was a wealthy aristocratic landowner who had married into Spanish aristocracy. He led a campaign for independence, which freed much of South America from Spanish occupation. The country of Bolivia is named after him.
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| The Birthplace of Simón Bolívar in Caracas, (now a museum) |
1802 Alexandre Dumas was born in Paris, France on July 24, 1802. He was the grandson of a woman slave from the Saint Domingue island (later renamed, Haiti), where his French father was born in 1762, and lived a large part of his life. Dumas wrote in a wide variety of genres and published a total of 100,000 pages in his lifetime. He is best known for his adventure novels with historical elements, which include The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Count of Monte Cristo.
1823 Venezuela was the first country in the region to start the struggle against Spanish rule, when a group of Caracas Creoles including Simón Bolívar deposed the Spanish colonial regime in 1810 and established the First Republic of Venezuela. In 1819 Simón Bolívar proclaimed the republic of Gran Columbia, which included Venezuela. the naval Battle of Lake Maracaib fought on July 23, 1823 resulted in the final expulsion of the Spanish from Gran Colombia.
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| Depiction of the battle from c. 1830 |
1837 Robert Cocking was a British watercolor artist who tried to invent an improved parachute design. He was so convinced of his invention that on July 24, 1837, he tested it himself, hanging below a balloon and releasing the parachute in the height of 5,000 feet (1,525 meters). He was the first person who died in a parachute accident.
1847 The first Mormon pioneers made their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward on February 4, 1846. Led by Brigham Young, they endured an epic thousand-mile trek across desert country, reaching the valley of the Great Salt Lake in Utah on July 24, 1847. On their arrival the Mormon pioneers began to construct a society in isolation, based on their beliefs and values.
1851 In 1696, William III of England introduced a window tax to pay for the losses of the great recoinage of 1695. It cost two shillings per house, plus extra payments for every window more than ten. The tax was increased several times and eventually applied to all windows in excess of six. To avoid it, many householders would brick up all windows except six. The tax was finally repealed on July 24, 1851.
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| A Southampton house, with bricked-up spaces in place of windows By Whilesteps |
1862 After his presidency, Martin Van Buren emerged as an elder statesman and important anti-slavery leader, who led the Free Soil Party ticket in the 1848 presidential election. Van Buren developed pneumonia in the latter half of 1861 and was bedridden during the fall and winter of 1861–62. In July 1862, he had a serious asthma attack and began to weaken. Van Buren died at his home in Kinderhook, New York, of heart failure on July 24, 1862, aged 79.
1897 Pioneering aviation pilot Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas,. As a child, Milly spent long hours playing with her younger sister Pidge, climbing trees, hunting rats with a rifle and "belly-slamming" her sled downhill. Earhart wasn't impressed the first time she saw an airplane at the age of 10. In Last Flight, a collection of diary entries published posthumously, she recalled feeling unmoved by “a thing of rusty wire and wood” at the Iowa State Fair in 1908.
1908 Originally the marathon was 25 miles. It was extended to 26 miles for the July 24, 1908 London Olympics race so that King Edward's grandchildren could watch the start of the marathon and Queen Alexandria could see the finish from the royal box. The organizers decided on a course of 26 miles from the start at Windsor Castle to the royal entrance to the White City Stadium, followed by a lap of the track, finishing in front of the Royal Box.
1911 Machu Picchu, a 15th-century Inca citadel situated on a mountain ridge 2,430 metres (7,970 ft) above sea level was built at the height of the Incas. It was abandoned just over 100 years later as a belated result of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, Machu Picchu remained unknown to the outside world for the next few centuries. American explorer Hiram Bingham rediscovered Machu Picchu on July 24, 1911 when he was shown it by a local farmer Melchor Arteaga.
1915 The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsized on July 24, 1915 while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew were killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
1924 On July 24, 1924 Themistoklis Sofoulis became Prime Minister of Greece. Themistoklis Sofoulis (1860-1949) was an archaeologist, who published certain insightful surveys and he participated actively in various excavations around Greece. In 1900 he abandoned archaeological excavations to devote himself to politics.
1926 Modern dog racing was introduced into Britain on July 24, 1926. The first greyhound race took place at Belle Vue Stadium in Manchester in front of 1,700 spectators. Greyhound racing quickly gained popularity across the UK and became a prominent sport during the 20th century
1938 The first mass produced instant coffee was invented in 1906 by George Constant Washington, an English chemist living in Guatemala after he observed dried coffee on the spout of the silver coffeepot. Nestlé introduced a more advanced coffee refining process in the late 1930s and launched Nescafe, the first truly successful instant coffee, on July 24, 1938. The Nescafe brand is a combination of the words “Nestlé” and “café.”
1964 On July 24, 1964, a riot broke out at a Rolling Stones gig at the Empress Ballroom, a large dance hall in Blackpool after the guitarist Keith Richards kicked a man who had been spitting at them. 50 fans were taken to hospital. The Rolling Stones were banned from Blackpool for 44 years, and they were only allowed to return to the town in 2008.
1967 During an official state visit to Canada, on July 24, 1967, French President Charles de Gaulle gave a speech on Montreal City Hall's balcony. He declared to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: "Vive le Québec libre!" ("Long live free Quebec!"). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
1974 English scientist Sir James Chadwick died on July 24, 1974. He was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. Chadwick intended studying mathematics, but he was interviewed by a physicist who assumed Chadwick wanted to study physics. He was too shy to contradict him, so ended up enrolling as a physics major.
1987 On July 24, 1987 author and politician Jeffrey Archer won £500,000 libel damages for a Daily Star story that claimed he had slept with a prostitute. The story, which was published in January 1987, was based on the testimony of a woman named Monica Coghlan, who claimed that she had had a sexual relationship with Archer in 1986. The damages he was awarded were the largest ever paid in a British libel case.
2001 Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria between 1943 and 1946 when he was a child, was sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria on July 24, 2001. He was one of the first monarchs in history to regain political power through a democratic election to a different office.
2015 Tennis star Serena Williams made a cameo appearance in the movie Pixels, which starred Adam Sandler and Kevin James, and premiered on July 24, 2015. In the movie, she plays herself, and she helps the characters save the world from aliens who have misinterpreted classic arcade games as a declaration of war.
2019 Boris Johnson succeeded Theresa May as leader of the Conservative Party on July 24, 2019 and became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. At the time the Conservative Party was a minority government and relied on the Northern Irish DUP Party to help them push legislation through parliament. Johnson called a general election running on a promise to “get Brexit done.” Winning over areas that had traditionally voted for Labour he led the Conservative Party to its biggest parliamentary victory since 1987.
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