07-23-2011, 07:41 PM
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Location: Maryland
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July 24th
1783 ~ Birthday of Simón Bolívar, South American liberator.
1898 ~ Birthday of Amelia Earhart, American Aviatrix.
1924 ~ The World Chess Federation, FIDE, was founded in Paris.
1943 ~ 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.
1948 ~ Marvin the Martian made his first appearance.
1959 ~ Khrushchev and Nixon had a 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.
1974 ~ Death of James Chadwick, English physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1935.
1980 ~ Birthday of Gauge, Porn Star.
1980 ~ Death of Peter Sellers, Actor.
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