Public Holidays on July 24

• 🌍 Natalicio de Simón Bolívar (Venezuela)
• 🌍 Simón Bolívar's Birthday (Venezuela)

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On This Day in History — July 24

• 2014 — Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers. The wreckage is later found in Mali. All 116 people...
• 2013 — A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed limit at 190 km/h (120 mph), killing 78 passengers.
• 2001 — Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a...
• 2001 — The Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos. 11 civilian and military aircraft are destroyed and 15 are damaged. All 14 commandos are shot dead, while 7 soldiers from the Sri Lanka Air...
• 1998 — Russell Eugene Weston, Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
• 1987 — US supertanker SS Bridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.

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Notable Births on July 24

• 1995 — Valentine Holmes, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 — Alejandra Álvarez, Ecuadorian tennis player
• 1992 — Dmitry Abyzov, Russian footballer
• 1992 — Mikaël Kingsbury, Canadian skier
• 1991 — Manuel Fischnaller, Italian footballer
• 1990 — Travis Mahoney, Australian swimmer

Notable Deaths on July 24

• 2017 — Harshida Raval, Indian Gujarati playback singer
• 2016 — Marni Nixon, American actress and singer (b. 1930)
• 2015 — Peg Lynch, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 2015 — Jim Mitchell, American captain, lawyer, and judge (b. 1946)
• 2015 — Ingrid Sischy, South African-American journalist and critic (b. 1952)
• 2014 — Ik-Hwan Bae, Korean-American violinist and educator (b. 1956)

Public Holidays on July 25

• 🌍 Caracas City Foundation Day (Venezuela)
• 🌍 Santiago Apóstol (Spain)

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Religious Observances on July 25

• Jewish: Shabbat Nachamu שבת נחמו

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On This Day in History — July 25

• 2010 — WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
• 2007 — Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
• 2000 — Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 passengers.
• 1996 — In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
• 1995 — A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
• 1994 — Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.

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Notable Births on July 25

• 1997 — Nat Butcher, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 — Sergei Simonov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2016)
• 1991 — Toni Duggan, English footballer
• 1990 — Andi Eigenmann, Filipino actress
• 1990 — Thodoris Karapetsas, Greek footballer
• 1989 — Natalia Vieru, Russian basketball player

Notable Deaths on July 25

• 2017 — Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 2015 — Jacques Andreani, French diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (b. 1929)
• 2015 — R. S. Gavai, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor of Kerala (b. 1929)
• 2015 — Bob Kauffman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1946)
• 2014 — Bel Kaufman, German-American author and academic (b. 1911)
• 2014 — Richard Larter, Australian painter and illustrator (b. 1929)