07-24-2006, 12:34 PM
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Location: Maryland
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July 24th
1783 ~ Birthday of Simón Bolívar, South American liberator.
1802 ~ Birthday of Alexandre Dumas, French writer. (The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers)
1898 ~ Birthday of Amelia Earhart, American Aviatrix.
1943 ~ Operation Gomorrah: The RAF Bomber Command bombed Hamburg by night, USAAF 8th Air Force Bomber Command by day. By the end of the operation, 9,000 tons of explosive & incendiary bombs created a firestorm which killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
1959 ~ Khrushchev and Nixon have war of words in the “Kitchen Debate”.
1967 ~ During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declared in Montreal "Vive le Québec libre!" (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
1969 ~ The Apollo 11 astronauts, two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon, splashed down safely in the Pacific.
1974 ~ Death of James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1980 ~ Death of Peter Sellers, Actor.
2005 ~ Lance Armstrong closed out his cycling career with a seventh consecutive Tour de France victory.
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