24 July
Notable Births
Ryan Johnson (ice hockey, born 2001)
b. 2001
American ice hockey player (born 2001)
Drake London
b. 2001
American football player (born 2001)
Bindi Irwin
b. 1998
Australian conservationist (born 1998)
Sophie Wotschke
b. 1998
Austrian politician (born 1998)
Joe Mixon
b. 1996
American football player (born 1996)
Valentine Holmes
b. 1995
Australia international rugby league footballer
Kyle Kuzma
b. 1995
American basketball player (born 1995)
Meisei Chikara
b. 1995
Japanese sumo wrestler
Phillip Lindsay
b. 1994
American football player (born 1994)
Mikaël Kingsbury
b. 1992
Canadian freestyle skier (born 1992)
Emily Bett Rickards
b. 1991
Canadian actress (born 1991)
Elliot Rodger
b. 1991
American mass murderer (1991–2014)
Maurkice Pouncey
b. 1989
American football player (born 1989)
Han Seung-yeon
b. 1988
South Korean singer and actress (born 1988)
Nichkhun
b. 1988
Thai American rapper (born 1988)
Ricky Petterd
b. 1988
Australian rules footballer
Nathan Gerbe
b. 1987
American ice hockey player (born 1987)
Patrice Bergeron
b. 1985
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1985)
John William Finn
b. 1909
US Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1909–2010)
Zelda Fitzgerald
b. 1900
American writer (1900–1948)
Notable Deaths
Hulk Hogan
d. 2025
American professional wrestler (1953–2025)
Cleo Laine
d. 2025
English jazz singer (1927–2025)
Shafin Ahmed
d. 2024
Bangladeshi bassist and singer-songwriter (1961–2024)
Hamzah Haz
d. 2024
Vice President of Indonesia from 2001 to 2004
Dmytro Kiva
d. 2024
Ukrainian engineer and designer (1942–2024)
George Alagiah
d. 2023
British newsreader and journalist (1955–2023)
Trevor Francis
d. 2023
English footballer and manager (1954–2023)
David Warner (actor)
d. 2022
British actor (1941–2022)
Dale Snodgrass
d. 2021
United States Navy pilot (1949–2021)
Rodney Alcala
d. 2021
American serial killer (1943–2021)
Regis Philbin
d. 2020
American television personality (1931–2020)
Marni Nixon
d. 2016
American singer and actress (1930–2016)
Peg Lynch
d. 2015
American actress
Ingrid Sischy
d. 2015
American writer and editor (1952–2015)
Dale Schlueter
d. 2014
American basketball player
Garry Davis
d. 2013
Peace activist and world federalist
Fred Dretske
d. 2013
American professor of Philosophy at Stanford University
Pius Langa
d. 2013
South African lawyer and judge (1939–2013)
Chad Everett
d. 2012
American actor (1937–2012)
Sherman Hemsley
d. 2012
American actor (1938–2012)
On This Day in History
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2025
Angara Airlines Flight 2311 crashes on approach to Tynda Airport, killing all 48 people on board.
Angara Airlines Flight 2311
2024
A Saurya Airlines Bombardier CRJ200 crashes during takeoff from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal killing 18.
Saurya Airlines
2019
Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Jeremy Hunt in a leadership contest, succeeding Theresa May.
Boris Johnson
2014
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.
Air Algérie Flight 5017
2013
Santiago de Compostela derailment: A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed limit at 190 km/h (120 mph), killing 78 passengers.
Santiago de Compostela derailment
2012
Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of Girkê Legê.
Syrian civil war
2009
Aria Air Flight 1525 crashes at Mashhad International Airport, killing 16.
Aria Air Flight 1525
2001
The Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, resulting in military and civilian casualties and destroyed aircraft.
Bandaranaike Airport attack
1999
Air Fiji flight 121 crashes while en route to Nadi, Fiji, killing all 17 people on board.
Air Fiji Flight 121
1998
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.
1998 United States Capitol shooting
1987
US supertanker SS Bridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.
SS Bridgeton
1987
Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak.
Hulda Crooks
1983
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.
Black July
1983
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".
George Brett
1982
Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
Nagasaki
1980
The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the swimming event at Olympic level.
Quietly Confident Quartet
1977
End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
Egyptian–Libyan War
1974
Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
Watergate scandal
1969
Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
Apollo program
1967
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.
Charles de Gaulle