By The Associated Press

              - Today is Saturday, July 24, the 205th day of 1999. There are 160
                days left in the year.

              - On July 24, 1959, during a visit to the Soviet Union, Vice President
                Richard M. Nixon engaged in a "Kitchen Debate" with Soviet leader
                Nikita Khrushchev at a U.S. exhibition.
              - In 1783 Latin American revolutionary Simon Bolivar was born in
                Caracas, Venezuela.
              - In 1847 Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the
                valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.
              - In 1862 the eighth president of the U.S., Martin Van Buren, died in
                Kinderhook, N.Y.
              - In 1866 Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the
                Union after the Civil War.
              - In 1923 the Treaty of Lausanne, which settled the boundaries of
                modern Turkey, was concluded in Switzerland.
              - In 1929 President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which
                renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.
              - In 1937 the state of Alabama dropped charges against five black men
                accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro Case.
              - In 1969 the Apollo 11 astronauts - two of whom had been the first
                men to set foot on the moon  - splashed down safely in the Pacific.
              - In 1974 the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had
                to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate
                special prosecutor.
              - In 1979 a Miami jury convicted Theodore Bundy of first-degree murder
                in the slayings of Florida State University sorority sisters
                Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy.

              - Ten years ago President Bush said he was "aggrieved" about
                allegations that veteran U.S. diplomat Felix S. Bloch might have
                spied for the Soviet Union.
              - Five years ago Rwandan refugees began trickling home after Zaire
                reopened the border between the two countries; meanwhile, the first
                wave of a U.S. airlift arrived. Miguel Indurain won his fourth
                consecutive Tour de France victory.
              - One year ago a gunman burst into the U.S. Capitol, opening fire and
                killing two police officers before being shot and captured.
 

              *Happy Birthday*
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              - Broadway producer Alexander H. Cohen is 79.
              - Movie director Peter Yates is 70.
              - Actress Jacqueline Brookes is 69.
              - Political cartoonist Pat Oliphant is 64.
              - Comedian Ruth Buzzi is 63.
              - Actor Mark Goddard is 63.
              - Actor Dan Hedaya is 59.
              - Actor Chris Sarandon is 57.
              - Actor Robert Hays is 52.
              - Montana Gov. Marc Racicot is 51.
              - Actor Michael Richards is 50.
              - Actress Lynda Carter is 48.
              - Movie director Gus Van Sant is 47.
              - Country singer Pam Tillis is 42.
              - Actor Kadeem Hardison is 34.
              - Actress Laura Leighton is 31.
              - Actor John P. Navin Jr. is 31.
              - Actress Jennifer Lopez is 29.
              - Actress Anna Paquin is 17.
              - Actress Mara Wilson is 12.