Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 24
July 24: Pioneer Day in Utah, Simón Bolívar Day in Ecuador and Venezuela.
- 1847 - Brigham Young led the first group of Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, at the time a part of Mexico.
- 1911 - In the Peruvian Andes, Hiram Bingham re-discovered Machu Picchu (pictured), "the Lost City of the Incas".
- 1927 - The Menin Gate war memorial in Ypres, Belgium was unveiled.
- 1943 - World War II: RAF Bomber Command started Operation Gomorrah, the strategic bombing of Hamburg, Germany.
- 2001 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, was sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the only monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.