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Important events of history that took place in India and elsewhere on today’s date.

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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