July 24<\/p>\n
1148 \u2013 An army under Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.<\/p>\n
1534 \u2013 French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gasp\u00e9 Peninsula along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.<\/p>\n
1567 \u2013 Mary, Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate and is replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI, later also James I of England<\/p>\n
1701 \u2013 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.<\/p>\n
1783 \u2013 Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar is born in Caracas, Venezuela.<\/p>\n
1847 \u2013 Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley.<\/p>\n
1864 \u2013 Confederate troops led by General Jubal Early defeat Union troops led by General George Crook, in the 2nd Battle of Kernstown, Virginia<\/p>\n
1866 \u2013 Tennessee becomes the first state to be readmitted to the Union under Reconstruction<\/p>\n
1911 \u2013 Hiram Bingham III discovers Machu Picchu<\/p>\n
1915 \u2013 The Michigan Steamship Company’s passenger ship SS Eastland<\/em> capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River with the loss of 844 passengers and crew of the 2572 aboard.<\/p>\n 1922 \u2013 The British Mandate of Palestine<\/em> is formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations<\/p>\n 1929 \u2013 The Kellogg\u2013Briand Pact<\/em>, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (really effective<\/em> wasn’t it?)<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper<\/em> rocket.<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev have a “Kitchen Debate”.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 Apollo 11 and crew returns to Earth, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 The Supreme Court rules that President Nixon does not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and orders them surrendered to the Watergate special prosecutor.<\/p>\n 1987 \u2013 The US flagged supertanker SS Bridgeton<\/em> collides with mines off Farsi island in the Persian Gulf laid by Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, causing\u00a0 moderate damage to the hull of the tanker.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 Russell Eugene Weston Jr. opens fire in the United States Capitol killing two police officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 24 1148 \u2013 An army under Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade. 1534 \u2013 French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gasp\u00e9 Peninsula along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57208"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94637,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57208\/revisions\/94637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}