Daily Calendar for Sunday, July 24, 2016

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Mary Queen of Scots was deposed – 1567
Brigham Young and followers arrived at Salt Lake, Utah – 1847
Tennessee readmitted to Union after Civil War – 1866
O. Henry released from Ohio State Penitentiary – 1901
James MacGillivray published first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News – 1910
Archaeologist Hiram Bingham “discovered” the Machu Picchu Incan ruins in Peru – 1911
Steamer Eastland overturned in the Chicago River, killing 844 people – 1915
Debut of Marvin the Martian in Bugs Bunny’s Haredevil Hare – 1948
67-pound 8-ounce muskellunge caught in Lac Courte Oreilles, Hayward, Wisconsin – 1949
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and ordered him to surrender the tapes – 1974
Hulda Crooks climbed Mt Fuji at age 91 – 1987
9-yr.-old Emma Houlston became youngest person to pilot plane across Canada (Victoria, B.C., to St. John’s, N.L.) – 1988

Wahluke, Washington, tied a record high temperature of 118 degrees F – 1928
345,000 amperes of electricity were measured in a lightning stroke in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – 1947
The record for 24-hour rainfall in the United States was set in Alvin, Texas with 43 inches of rain from hurricane Claudette; the rain ended on July 25 – 1979
Hail the size of oranges fell on Calgary, Alberta. – 1996
EF2 tornado struck Epsom, New Hampshire, destroying homes and causing at least one death – 2008