Here are some of the eventful moments that took place on July 24th:
1847 – Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.
1847 – Richard M. Hoe patented the rotary-type printing press.
1866 – Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the U.S. Civil War.
1923 – The Treaty of Lausanne, which settled the boundaries of modern Turkey, was concluded in Switzerland.
1929 – U.S. President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.
1933 – The first broadcast of “The Romance of Helen Trent” was heard on radio. 7,222 episodes were aired.
1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his fourth “Fireside Chat.”
1948 – Soviet occupation forces in Germany blockaded West Berlin. The U.S.-British airlift began the following day.
1956 – Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis ended their team. They ended the partnership a decade after it began on July 25, 1946.
1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974 – The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1978 – Billy Martin was fired for the first of three times as the manager of the New York Yankees baseball team.
id="yui_3_2_0_1_1343117686344895">1985 – Walt Disney released their 25th full-length cartoon. The work was “The Black Cauldron.”
Disney movies, music and books
1987 – Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Hulda became the oldest person to climb Japan’s highest peak.
1998 – Roy O. Disney received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2009-The MV Arctic Sea, reportedly carrying a cargo of timber, is allegedly hijacked in the North Sea  by pirates, but much speculation remains as to the actual cargo and events.
2010-Northern Irish snooker player, Alex Higgins dies of throat cancer
