July 24

Today in History
• 1411 - Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place
• 1487 - Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, rebel against ban on foreign beer
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France
• 1651 - Anthony Johnson, a free African American, receives grant of 250 acres in Virginia
• 1660 - Great Fire of 1660 in Constantinople; two thirds of the city is destroyed
• 1683 - 1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord
• 1701 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, (Detroit)
• 1793 - France passes 1st copyright law


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Children's Day in Vanuatu
• National Amelia Earhart Day
• National Day of Motoring
• National Drive-Thru Day
• Pioneer Day
• Samaritans Awareness Day
• Simón Bolivar's Birthday
• Royal Welsh Show

Birthdays
• 1380 - Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint
• 1720 - Louise Ulrike, Queen of Sweden and wife of Adolf Frederik
• 1759 - Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia, 1802-21
• 1783 - Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule
• 1796 - John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, Sen-Del, U.S. Secretary of State
• 1817 - Adolf WAKF, grand duke of Luxembourg, 1890-1905
• 1826 - Francisco S Lopez, Tiran, president of Paraguay, 1862-70
• 1897 - Amelia EarhartAmelia Earhart, aviator (1st woman to fly solo across the Atlantic)