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Thursday July 24, 2014 This is the 205th day of the year, with 160 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: bones The hard mineral salts that make up the bones remain after death and can retain their original shape for several thousands of years.
Holidays Feast day of St. Christina the Astonishing, St. Boris or Romanus, St. Declan, St. Christina of Bolsena, St. Lewinna, and St. Gleb or David.
Utah, western U.S. states: Pioneer Day.
Venezuela: Bolivar's Birthday.
Events 1701 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac established Fort Ponchartrain for France at present-day Detroit.
1847 - Brigham Young arrived with 148 Mormon pioneers at Utah's Valley of the Great Salt Lake.
1866 - Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.
1911 - Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram Bingham.
1974 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1990 - Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait/Iraq border.
2005 - Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
Births 1783 - Simón Bolivar, Latin American revolutionary.
1802 - Alexander Dumas (Davy de La Pailleterie) (Dumas PÈre), French playwright, novelist.
1897 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator.
1920 - Bella Abzug, American feminist, U.S. Congresswoman.
1935 - Pat Oliphant, Australian political cartoonist.
1946 - Gallagher (born Leo Anthony Gallagher) is an American comedian and prop comic, most popularly known for smashing watermelons as part of his act.
1957 - Pam Tillis, country music singer and songwriter, born in Plant City, Florida.
1963 - Karl Malone, retired American basketball player.
1969 - Jennifer Lopez, actress and singer, born in South Bronx, New York.
Deaths 1240 - Konrad von Thüringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
1862 - Martin van Buren, 8th President of the United States of America.
1980 - Peter Sellers, English comic actor.
1991 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel Prize-winning Polish-born American author, and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement.
1997 - William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
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