On this day in history – Today, July 24

Today July 24 in History

• 2013 Santiago de Compostela derailment

  A high-speed train traveling from Madrid to Ferrol derailed on a curve killing 79 people and injuring over 100.

• 1977 The 4-day long Libyan-Egyptian War comes to an end

  The border war began with thousands of Libyans marching towards Egypt’s borders.

• 1959 Kitchen debate between Nixon and Khrushchev

  A series of debates, now popularly called the kitchen debates, occurred between U.S. President Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev in Moscow. Nixon was visiting a house built as part of an exhibit in the American National Exhibition.

• 1923 The Treaty of Lausanne is signed between Turkey and the countries that formed the Allied Powers in the First World War

  Under the treaty,Turkey had to give up all the territorial claims made by the Ottoman Empire and agree to new borders.

• 1911 Rediscovery of Machu Picchu

  The 15th century, largely forgotten Inca site in Peru was rediscovered by American Hiram Bingham III.