History for July 24

History for July 24 - On-This-Day.com:
Simon Bolivar 1783, Alexander Dumas 1802, Amelia Earhart 1898


Chief Dan George 1899, Pat Oliphant 1935, Lynda Carter 1951


1847 - Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.


1847 - Richard M. Hoe patented the rotary-type printing press.


1923 - The Treaty of Lausanne, which settled the boundaries of modern Turkey, was concluded in Switzerland.


1929 - U.S. President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.


1948 - Soviet occupation forces in Germany blockaded West Berlin. The U.S.-British airlift began the following day.


1956 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis ended their team. They ended the partnership a decade after it began on July 25, 1946.


1969 - The Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.


1974 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.