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Twenty-​fourth of July

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On July 24, 1487, citizens in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, went on strike against a ban on foreign beer.

On the same day of 1823’s calendar, slavery was abolished in Chile.

The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled, on July 24, 1974, that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes in the developing Watergate scandal.

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