Editing July 24 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[1132]] &ndash; [[Battle of Nocera]] between [[Ranulf II of Alife]] and [[Roger II of Sicily]].
*[[1148]] &ndash; [[Louis VII of France]] lays [[Siege of Damascus (1148)|siege to Damascus]] during the [[Second Crusade]].
*[[1304]] &ndash; [[Wars of Scottish Independence]]: [[Fall of Stirling Castle]]: King [[Edward I of England]] takes the stronghold using the [[Warwolf|War Wolf]].
*[[1411]] &ndash; [[Battle of Harlaw]], one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
*[[1412]] &ndash; [[Ignatius Behnam Hadloyo|Behnam Hadloyo]] becomes [[Syriac Orthodox Church|Syriac Orthodox]] Patriarch of Mardin.<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Barsoum| first1=Ephrem |date=2003|title=The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences|edition=2nd|publisher=Gorgias Press|translator=Matti Moosa|author-link=Ignatius Aphrem I Barsoum|page=497}}</ref>
*[[1487]] &ndash; Citizens of [[Leeuwarden]], Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign [[beer]].
*[[1534]] &ndash; French explorer [[Jacques Cartier]] plants a cross on the [[Gaspé Peninsula]] and takes possession of the territory in the name of [[Francis I of France]].
*[[1567]] &ndash; [[Mary, Queen of Scots]], is [[Accession and Coronation Act 1567|forced to abdicate]] and be replaced by her one-year-old son [[James VI and I|James VI]].

===1601–1900===
*[[1701]] &ndash; [[Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac]] founds the trading post at [[Fort Detroit|Fort Pontchartrain]], which later becomes the city of [[Detroit]].
*[[1712]] &ndash; [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: The French under [[Marshal Villars]] win a [[battle of Denain|decisive victory]] over [[Eugene of Savoy]] at Denain.<ref>* {{Cite book |title=The Wars of Louis XIV: 1667–1714 |last=Lynn |first=John A. |author-link=John A. Lynn |year=1999 |publisher=Longman |location=London |isbn=0-582-05629-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/warsoflouisxiv1600lynn|page=354}}</ref>
*[[1847]] &ndash; After 17 months of travel, [[Brigham Young]] leads 148 [[Mormons|Mormon]] pioneers into [[Salt Lake Valley]], resulting in the establishment of [[Salt Lake City]].
*  1847   &ndash; [[Richard March Hoe]],  American inventor, patented the rotary-type printing press.
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Second Battle of Kernstown|Battle of Kernstown]]: [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[General (CSA)|General]] [[Jubal Early]] defeats [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] troops led by General [[George Crook]] in an effort to keep them out of the [[Shenandoah Valley]].
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Reconstruction Era|Reconstruction]]: [[Tennessee]] becomes the first [[U.S. state]] to be readmitted to Congress following the American Civil War.

===1901–present===
*[[1901]] &ndash; [[O. Henry]] is released from prison in [[Columbus, Ohio]], after serving three years for [[embezzlement]] from a bank.
*[[1910]] &ndash; The [[Ottoman Empire]] captures the city of [[Shkodër]], putting down the [[Albanian Revolt of 1910]].
*[[1911]] &ndash; [[Hiram Bingham III]] re-discovers [[Machu Picchu]], "the Lost City of the [[Inca Empire|Inca]]s".
*[[1915]] &ndash; The passenger ship {{SS|Eastland}} capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the [[Great Lakes]].
*[[1922]] &ndash; The draft of the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]] was formally confirmed by the [[League of Nations#Council|Council of the League of Nations]]; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.
*[[1923]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Lausanne (1923)|Treaty of Lausanne]], settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, [[Bulgaria]] and other countries that fought in [[World War I]].
*[[1924]] &ndash; [[Themistoklis Sofoulis]] becomes [[Prime Minister of Greece]].
*[[1927]] &ndash; The [[Menin Gate]] war memorial is unveiled at [[Ypres]].
*[[1929]] &ndash; The [[Kellogg–Briand Pact]], renouncing war as an instrument of [[foreign policy]], goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
*[[1935]] &ndash; The [[Dust Bowl]] heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109&nbsp;°F (43&nbsp;°C) in [[Chicago]] and 104&nbsp;°F (40&nbsp;°C) in [[Milwaukee]].
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Bombing of Hamburg in World War II|Operation Gomorrah]] begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb [[Hamburg]] by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in [[November]], 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
*[[1950]] &ndash; [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station]] begins operations with the launch of a [[RTV-G-4 Bumper|Bumper]] rocket.
*[[1959]] &ndash; At the opening of the [[American National Exhibition]] in Moscow, [[Vice President of the United States|U.S. Vice President]] [[Richard Nixon]] and Soviet [[Premier]] [[Nikita Khrushchev]] have a "[[Kitchen Debate]]".
*[[1963]] &ndash; The ship ''[[Bluenose II]]'' was launched in [[Lunenburg, Nova Scotia]]. The schooner is a major Canadian symbol.
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[Michael Pelkey]] makes the first [[BASE jumping|BASE jump]] from [[El Capitan]] along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
*[[1967]] &ndash; During an official state visit to Canada, French President [[Charles de Gaulle]] declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in [[Montreal]]: ''[[Vive le Québec libre]]!'' ("Long live free Quebec!"); the statement angered the Canadian government and many [[Anglophone Canadians]]. 
*[[1969]] &ndash; [[Apollo program]]: [[Apollo 11]] splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[Watergate scandal]]: The [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] unanimously ruled that [[President of the United States|President]] [[Richard Nixon]] did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed [[White House]] tapes and they [[United States v. Nixon|order him]] to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
*[[1977]] &ndash; End of a four-day-long [[Libyan–Egyptian War]].
*[[1980]] &ndash; The [[Quietly Confident Quartet]] of [[Australia at the 1980 Summer Olympics|Australia]] wins the [[Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay|men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay]] at the [[1980 Summer Olympics|Moscow Olympics]], the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
*[[1982]] &ndash; Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at [[Nagasaki]], Japan, killing 299.
*[[1983]] &ndash; The [[Black July]] anti-Tamil riots begin in [[Sri Lanka]], killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the [[Sri Lankan civil war|Sri Lankan Civil War]].
*[[1983]] &ndash; [[George Brett]] playing for the [[Kansas City Royals]] against the [[New York Yankees]], has a game-winning home run nullified in the "[[Pine Tar Incident]]".
*[[1987]] &ndash; US supertanker {{SS|Bridgeton}} [[Bridgeton incident|collides]] with mines laid by [[IRGC]] causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.
*  1987   &ndash; [[Hulda Crooks]], at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak. 
*[[1998]] &ndash; [[1998 United States Capitol shooting incident|Russell Eugene Weston Jr.]] bursts into the [[United States Capitol]] and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[Air Fiji Flight 121|Air Fiji flight 121]] crashes while en route to [[Nadi]], Fiji, killing all 17 people on board.<ref name="ASN2">{{cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |date= |title=Air Fiji Flight 121 |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19990724-0 |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=Aviation Safety Network}}</ref>
*[[2001]] &ndash; The [[Bandaranaike Airport attack]] is carried out by 14 [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam|Tamil Tiger]] commandos. Eleven civilian and military aircraft are destroyed and 15 are damaged. All 14 commandos are shot dead, while seven soldiers from the [[Sri Lanka Air Force]] are killed. In addition, three civilians and an engineer die. This incident slowed the [[Sri Lanka]]n economy.
*[[2009]] &ndash; [[Aria Air Flight 1525]] crashes at [[Mashhad International Airport]], killing 16.<ref name="ASN">{{cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=Accident description |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20090724-0t |url-status=dead |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=Aviation Safety Network |accessdate=24 July 2009 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090728072721/http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20090724-0t |archivedate=28 July 2009}}</ref>
*[[2012]] &ndash; [[Syrian civil war]]: The [[People's Protection Units]] (YPG) capture the city of [[Al-Ma'bada|Girkê Legê]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Girke Lege Becomes Sixth Kurdish City Liberated in Syria |url=http://www.rudaw.net/english/news/syria/4992.html |access-date=27 July 2012 |newspaper=Rudaw |date=24 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121129100410/http://www.rudaw.net/english/news/syria/4992.html |archive-date=29 November 2012 }}</ref>
*[[2013]] &ndash; [[Santiago de Compostela derailment]]: A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an {{convert|80|kph|abbr=on}} speed limit at {{convert|190|kph|abbr=on}}, killing 78 passengers.
*[[2014]] &ndash; [[Air Algérie Flight 5017]] loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between [[Ouagadougou]], [[Burkina Faso]] and [[Algiers]]. The wreckage is later found in [[Mali]]. All 116 people on board are killed.
*[[2019]] &ndash; [[Boris Johnson]] becomes [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] after defeating [[Jeremy Hunt]] in a [[2019 Conservative Party leadership election|leadership contest]], succeeding [[Theresa May]].<ref>{{citation |title=Boris Johnson becomes UK's new prime minister|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49102466|work=BBC News|date=July 24, 2019 |access-date=July 24, 2019}}</ref>
*[[2024]] &ndash; A [[Saurya Airlines]] [[Bombardier CRJ100/200|Bombardier CRJ200]] [[2024 Saurya Airlines Bombardier CRJ200 crash|crashes]] during takeoff from [[Tribhuvan International Airport]] in [[Kathmandu]], Nepal killing 18.<ref name="avherald">{{Cite web |last=Hradecky |first=Simon |date=2024-07-24 |title=Crash: Saurya CRJ2 near Kathmandu on Jul 24 2024, rolled right and lost height after take off |url=https://avherald.com/h?article=51b861c3&opt=0 |access-date=2024-07-24 |website=The Aviation Herald}}</ref>