GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS FRIDAY, July 24, the 205th day of 2015 with 160 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 5:28 and sunset is @ 8:13. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune & Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Saturn & Venus.
ON THIS DAY IN: 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.
1849 – Georgetown University in Washington, DC, presented its first Doctor of Music Degree. It was given to Professor Henry Dielman.
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.
1985 – Walt Disney released their 25th full-length cartoon. The work was “The Black Cauldron.”
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.