Historical Events for 24th July 2022

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1673 - Edmund Halley enters The Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
1683 - 1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord
1833 - HMS Beagle departs Maldonado, Uruguay
1911 - Cleve's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3
1935 - The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR
1963 - Dutch government of Marijnen forms
1979 - Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR
1985 - Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi signs a peace accord with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai to settle the three-year Punjab crisis
2012 - John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills
2019 - 10th million Mini car produced during its 60th anniversary year in Oxford, England

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