Today In History
Today is Saturday, July 24, the 205th day of 2021. There are 160 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 1969: The Apollo 11 astronauts — two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon — splashed down safely in the Pacific.
ON THIS DATE
› 1567: Mary, Queen of Scots was forced to abdicate by Scottish nobles in favor of her infant son James, who became King of Scotland at the age of one.
› 1862: Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, and the first to have been born a U.S. citizen, died at age 79 in Kinderhook, New York, the town where he was born in 1782.
› 1866: Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.
› 1915: The SS Eastland, a passenger ship carrying more than 2,500 people, rolled onto its side while docked at the Clark Street Bridge on the Chicago River; an estimated 844 people died in the disaster.
› 1937: The state of Alabama dropped charges against four of the nine young Black men accused of raping two white women in the “Scottsboro Case.”
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Actor John Aniston is
88. Political cartoonist Pat Oliphant is 86. Comedian Ruth Buzzi is 85. Actor Mark Goddard is
85. Actor Dan Hedaya is
81. Actor Chris Sarandon is 79. Comedian Gallagher is 75. Actor Robert Hays is 74. Movie director Gus Van Sant is 69. Former Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., is 68. Country singer Pam Tillis is 64. Actor Paul Ben-Victor is 59. Basketball Hall of Famer Karl Malone is
58. Retired MLB All-Star Barry Bonds is 57. Actor Kadeem Hardison is
56. Actor-singer Kristin Chenoweth is 53. Actor Laura Leighton is 53. Actor John P. Navin Jr. is 53. Actor Jamie Denbo (TV: “Orange is the New Black”) is 48. Actor Eric Szmanda is 46. Actor Rose Byrne is 42. Country singer Jerrod Niemann is
42. Actor Summer Glau is 40. Actor Sheaun McKinney is 40. Actor Elisabeth Moss is 39. Actor Anna Paquin is 39. Actor Sarah Greene is 37. NHL center Patrice Bergeron is 36. Actor Mara Wilson is 34. Rock singer Jay McGuiness (The Wanted) is 31. Actor Emily Bett Rickards is 30. Actor Lucas Adams is 28. TV personality Bindi Irwin is 23.