July 24
1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
1935 – The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (44°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [Judging by pooh's standards this was still balmy weather...]
2005 – Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France. [och the controversy, och the drama...]
2010 – Over 80,000 people from around the world record their daily lives for submission to the YouTube documentary Life In A Day.
[Otherwise, some battles here and there, Mary Queen of Scots being deposed, some ships sinking, treaties and pacts, Charles the Gaulle angering the Canadian government, mudslides in Japan, some Olympic swimming, former Tsars becoming Prime Ministers, the Tamil Tigers making a nuisance of themselves... you know, the usual.
A day in the life
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Births:
1783 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan military commander (d. 1830)
1897 – Amelia Earhart, American aviator (d. 1937)
.. and many other people