On This Day
24 July
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1206 Qutubu'd-din Aibak was crowned at Lahore after the death of Muhammad of Ghuri.
- 1992 Shankar Dayal Sharma is elected ninth President of India.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1802 Alexander Dumas, one of the most widely read French authors, with perhaps his two most famous novels being The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, was born.
- 1897 Amelia Earhart, one of the world's most-celebrated aviators and the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean, was born in Atchison, Kansas.
- 1901 Author O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
- 1911 American explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas.
- 1969 Apollo 11 returns to earth after its successful mission to land astronauts on the Moon.
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