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Machu Picchu / Operation Gomorrah / High Noon

On This Day (July 24): Your quick daily trip back in time

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Fatih Taskiran
July 24, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

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Good morning. It's Thursday, July 24, and we're exploring the rediscovery of Machu Picchu, the Bombing of Hamburg in World War II, a Western masterpiece: High Noon, and much more.

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🗓️ Time Machine

-1534

French explorer Jacques Cartier claimed the lands around Gaspé for France by erecting a 30-foot cross at Pointe-Penouille.

-1567

Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate; her 1-year-old son becomes King James VI of Scotland.

-1832

-1911

American history scholar Hiram Bingham III gets his first look at the ruins of Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas.

-1943

RAF bombs Hamburg (till 3rd August) in Operation Gomorrah, creating a firestorm and killing 42,600.

-1952

Fred Zinnemann's controversial and iconic American Western movie "High Noon" was released.

-1969

The Apollo 11 spacecraft returned safely to Earth after taking the first astronauts to the moon.

-1998

-2019

The rate of global warming is the fastest in 2,000 years, and human activity is 99% of the cause, according to three major reports published in the journals "Nature Geoscience".

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