07-25-2004, 10:33 AM
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July 24th
1701 ~ Detroit, Michigan founded.
1783 ~ Birthday of Simón Bolívar, South American liberator.
1802 ~ Birthday of Alexandre Dumas, Playwright & Novelist.
1847 ~ Brigham Young lead 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
1898 ~ Birthday of Amelia Earhart, Aviator.
1910 ~ James MacGillivray published first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News.
1943 ~ World War II: Operation Gomorrah began: British and Canadian aeroplanes bombed Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of bombs killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
1969 ~ Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1980 ~ Death of Peter Sellers, Actor.
1991 ~ Death of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Author, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978.
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