July 24
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Art and culture
- 1749 - Denis Diderot is arrested for having written "Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient"
- 1823 - Slavery is abolished in Chile
- 1959 – Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev engage in the Kitchen Debate.
- 1967 - SOMA Research Association advertisement in The Times
- 1970 - Phun City festival opens in England
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Births
- 1783 - Simón Bolívar, South American liberator (d. 1830)
- 1802 - Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (d. 1870)
- 1860 - Alphonse Mucha, Czech artist (d. 1939)
- 1864 - Frank Wedekind, German writer (d. 1918)
- 1880 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (d. 1959)
- 1895 - Robert Graves, English author (d. 1985)
- 1886 - Junichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author (d. 1965)
- 1952 - Gus Van Sant, American film director
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Deaths
- 1969 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904)
- 1980 - Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)
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