Today in History, July 24
1847—President Brigham Young and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints enter the Salt Lake Valley. Young blesses their long travels: "It is enough. This is the right place." The date is still celebrated as Pioneer Day in Utah.
1923—The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey and concluding World War I, is signed in Switzerland.
1959—Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev share a heated debate at the American National Exhibit in Moscow. Called the "kitchen debate," since it occurs in front of a model of an American kitchen at the fair, the two discuss capitalism and communism.
1969—Apollo 11, carrying the first men to walk on the moon (Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin), returns safely to Earth.
2005—Lance Armstrong cycles his way to his seventh (and final) consecutive win of the Tour de France.
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