On This Day June 24th

 OTD

July 24th is the two-hundredth-third day of the year, and there are 160 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Events

1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.

1487 – Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign beer.

1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later became the city of Detroit.

1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, establishing Salt Lake City.

1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".

1935 – The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (43 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee.

1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.

1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".

1983 – George Brett, playing for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".

 

Birthdays

 1242 – Christina von Stommeln, German Roman Catholic mystic, ecstatic, and stigmatic (d. 1312)

1786 – Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)

1802 – Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (d. 1870)

1826 – Jan Gotlib Bloch, Polish theorist and activist (d. 1902)

1880 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss-American composer and educator (d. 1959)

1897 – Amelia Earhart, American pilot and author (d. 1937)

1900 – Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, visual artist, and ballet dancer (d. 1948)

1920 – Bella Abzug, American lawyer and politician (d. 1998)

1936 – Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian.

1946 – Gallagher, American comedian and actor (d. 2022)

1957 – Pam Tillis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress.

1969 – Jennifer Lopez, American actress, singer, and dancer

1998 – Bindi Irwin, Australian conservationist, zookeeper, and actress.

 

 

Highlighted Holiday

NATIONAL COUSINS DAY

National Cousins Day showed up on our calendars at some point, but we're not quite sure when. What we do know is that cousins have long played a big role in keeping families connected.

American families have been getting together for reunions since the first settlers left their homes and traveled west in search of fortune and land. As time went on, the responsibility of keeping the extended family connected was passed down from one generation to the next, and cousins became the guardians of family ties.

Even if your family doesn't have regular reunions anymore, cousins often reach out to each other later in life to reminisce about their shared family memories. If your cousins are as close as siblings or if you grew up as best friends, staying in touch with them might not need a special day on the calendar. But if you come from a small family or one where everyone seems to have scattered, celebrating cousinship might take a bit more effort. You might need to mark National Cousins Day on your calendar as a reason to reconnect with your childhood cousins.

Visiting a family member you haven't seen since you were both relegated to the kids' table is always an interesting and nostalgic reunion. You get to catch up on where life has taken you, the families you've started, the careers you've pursued, and how you've all changed over the years.

 

Holidays And Observance.

Amelia Earhart Day

Cousins Day

International Self-Care Day

National Drive-Thru Day

National Tequila Day

National Thermal Engineers Day

Pioneer Day (State Holiday in Utah)

Tell an Old Joke Day