Wiki143:Selected anniversaries/July 24

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Menin Gate

Menin Gate
Brigham Young

Brigham Young
Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu
Bombing of Hamburg

Bombing of Hamburg
A crowd of men surrounds Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon as they hold an impromptu debate

Khrushchev and Nixon debating
The Detroit skyline as seen from Windsor, Ontario

The Detroit skyline as seen from Windsor, Ontario
Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh
North face of the Eiger

North face of the Eiger
Rescuers at the Santiago de Compostela derailment

Rescuers at the Santiago de Compostela derailment
Isa Boletini, a leader of the Albanian revolt

Isa Boletini, a leader of the Albanian revolt
Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit

Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit
Battle of Harlaw monument

Battle of Harlaw monument
Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle
Don Bradman, captain of the 1948 Australia cricket team

Don Bradman, captain of the 1948 Australia cricket team

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Blurb	Reason
Simón Bolívar Day in Ecuador and Venezuela;	cleanup required
1701 – French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac established Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, which later grew into the city of Detroit.	lots of CN tags (29), bare URLs
1783 – The Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti and the Russian Empire signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, establishing Georgia as a protectorate of Russia.	lots of CN tags (7)
1847 – Brigham Young led the first group of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley of Utah, at the time a part of Mexico.	refimprove section
* 1910 – Ottoman forces captured the city of Shkodër, ending the Albanian revolt of 1910.	ref issues
1911 – In the Peruvian Andes, American explorer Hiram Bingham re-discovered Machu Picchu, then thought to be the "Lost City of the Incas".	refimprove sections
1915 – The passenger ship SS Eastland rolled over while tied to a dock in the Chicago River, killing 844 passengers and crew, the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.	refimprove section
1927 – The Menin Gate war memorial in Ypres, Belgium, marking the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line during World War I, was unveiled.	refimprove section
1929 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact, an international treaty renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, went into effect.	featured on August 27
1938 – A combined German–Austrian team became the first team to climb the north face of the Eiger, one of the six great north faces of the Alps.	refimprove section
1943 – Second World War: RAF Bomber Command began Operation Gomorrah, the strategic bombing of Hamburg, Germany, eventually killing at least 50,000 and leaving over a million others homeless.	refimprove section
1963 – Bluenose II, a replica fishing schooner and major Canadian symbol, was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.	lots of CN tags in one section (4)
1977 – The Libyan–Egyptian War, a short border war between the two nations, ended after the combatants agreed to a ceasefire brokered by Algeria.	featured on July 21
1991 – The government of P. V. Narasimha Rao and his finance minister Manmohan Singh introduced reforms that began the ongoing economic liberalisation in India.	expansion
2001 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Fourteen members of the Black Tigers squadron of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam carried out a suicide attack on Bandaranaike International Airport, destroying eight military aircraft and three passenger jets.	refimprove
2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, was sworn in as prime minister of Bulgaria, becoming one of the first monarchs in history to regain political power through a democratic election to a different office.	unreferenced section (Ancestry)
2002 – Having been convicted of accepting bribes, income tax evasion, and racketeering, James Traficant was expelled from the United States House of Representatives.	refimprove section
2007 – The Libyan government extradited six foreign medical workers who were charged with conspiring to deliberately infect over 400 children with HIV in 1998.	unreferenced section
2009 – MV Arctic Sea declared to be carrying a cargo of timber, was allegedly boarded by hijackers off the coast of Sweden in an incident that remains incompletely explained.	[citation needed] x6, [dead link] x1
2013 – Santiago de Compostela derailment: a Spanish high-speed train derailed at Santiago de Compostela; 79 died and around 140 were injured.	lots of CN tags (7)

Eligible

1411 – Scottish clansmen led by Donald of Islay, Lord of the Isles, and Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, fought the Battle of Harlaw (monument pictured) near Inverurie, Scotland.
1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicate in favour of her one-year-old son, who became James VI.
1920 – Franco-Syrian War: At the Battle of Maysalun forces of the Arab Kingdom of Syria were defeated by a French army moving to occupy the territory allocated to them by the San Remo conference.
1923 – The Treaty of Lausanne was signed to settle part of the partition of the Ottoman Empire, establishing the boundaries of Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.
1967 – During a speech in Montreal, French president Charles de Gaulle (pictured) declared "Long live free Quebec!", a statement that was interpreted as support for Quebec independence from Canada.
1948 – Australia set a world record for the highest successful run-chase in Test cricket history during the Fourth Test of the Ashes series against England.
1987 – Iran–Iraq War: In opposition to the American plan to protect Kuwaiti tankers, Iran laid mines and damaged the Template:SS, resulting in a propaganda victory for Iran.
1998 – A gunman entered the United States Capitol and opened fire, killing two police officers.