Daily Almanac: July 24, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 6:37 a.m.
SET: 9:11 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 88 °F
LOW: 63 °F

Today is…:
• Amelia Earhart Day
• National Drive-Thru Day
• National Tequila Day

What Happened On This Day:
• 1977 The 4-day long Libyan-Egyptian War comes to an end. The border war began with thousands of Libyans marching towards Egypt’s borders.
• 1959 Kitchen debate between Nixon and Khrushchev. A series of debates, now popularly called the kitchen debates, occurred between U.S. Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev in Moscow. Nixon was visiting a house built as part of an exhibit in the American National Exhibition.
• 1923 The Treaty of Lausanne is signed between Turkey and the countries that formed the Allied Powers in the First World War. Under the treaty,Turkey had to give up all the territorial claims made by the Ottoman Empire and agree to new borders.

Births On This Day:

• 1897 Amelia Earhart

American pilot, author
• 1802 Alexandre Dumas

French writer

Deaths On This Day:

• 2012 Robert Ledley

American scientist, invented the full-body CT scanner
• 1862 Martin Van Buren

American politician, 8th President of the United States