On this day in 1911, American archeologist Hiram Bingham gets his first look at Machu Picchu, an ancient Inca settlement in Peru that is now one of the world’s top tourist destinations.

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24' July 1942: Opening of Treblinka II, which is a mile from Treblinka I. The opening is part of Operation Reinhard, the nazis plan for wiping out Polish Jews.

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On this day in 2005, American cyclist Lance Armstrong wins a record-setting seventh consecutive Tour de France and retires from the sport. After Armstrong survived testicular cancer, his rise to cycling greatness inspired cancer patients and fans around the world and significantly boosted his sport’s popularity in the United States. However, in 2012, in a dramatic fall from grace, the onetime global cycling icon was stripped of his seven Tour titles after being charged with the systematic use of performance-enhancing drugs.

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24' July 1944: The deportations continued from Sarvar, Hungary, despite the fact that the German Army was retreating. One thousand, five hundred were sent to Birkenau.

The fact that a retreating army would take time and resources for this is just one more reminder that the war Against the Jews was an intrical part of the nazi German military plan.

Contrary to what the Holocaust deniers and revisionist historians say, the destruction of the Jews was a critical part of the nazi program and not just a mere after-thought.

Tuol Svay Pray High School sits on a dusty road on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In 1976, the Khmer Rouge renamed the high school S-21 and turned it into a torture, interrogation and execution center. Of the 14,000 people known to have entered, only seven survived.

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On this day in 1943, Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy, is voted out of power by his own Grand Council and arrested upon leaving a meeting with King Vittorio Emanuele, who tells Il Duce that the war is lost. Mussolini responded to it all with an uncharacteristic meekness.

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25' July 1944 World War II: Operation Spring; one of Canada's bloodiest days, 18,444 casualties and 5,021 killed.

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On this day in 1908, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is born when U.S. Attorney General Charles Bonaparte orders a group of newly hired federal investigators to report to Chief Examiner Stanley W. Finch of the Department of Justice. One year later, the Office of the Chief Examiner was renamed the Bureau of Investigation, and in 1935 it became the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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On this day in 1945, Winston Churchill is forced to resign as British prime minister following his party’s electoral defeat by the Labour Party. It was the first general election held in Britain in more than a decade. The same day, Clement Attlee, the Labour leader, was sworn in as the new British leader.
Churchill became leader of the opposition and in 1951 was again elected prime minister. Two years later, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for his six-volume historical study of World War II and for his political speeches. In 1955, he retired as prime minister but remained in Parliament until 1964, the year before his death.

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July 22-28 - action "Storm" in Lviv. The AK * units, supporting, motorized infantry units of the Red Army, contributed significantly to the liberation of Lviv. At the end of the fighting, AK troops were disarmed, and commanders summoned by the Soviets to the council, arrested and imprisoned.

*AK = Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa)
More info on wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Army

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26' july 1944: The first German V-2 hits Great Britain. The V-2 was vast “improvement” over the V-1. Unlike the V-1 which was essentially a flying bomb, the V-2 was a true guided missile, posing a much greater threat to the British and the Allied forces already in Europe.

Anglo-American military leaders were forced to alter their strategy to deal with this immediate threat. This diverted forces from driving into the German heartland which prolonged the war and the agony of the Holocaust.

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On this day in 1990, the last Citroen 2CV, known as the “Tin Snail” for its distinctive shape, rolls off the production line at the company’s plant in Mangualde, Portugal at four o’clock on the afternoon. Since its debut in 1948, a total of 5,114,959 2CVs had been produced worldwide.

The French engineer and industrialist Andre Citroen converted his munitions plant into an automobile company after World War I; beginning in 1919, it was the first automaker to mass-produce cars outside of the United States. As in Germany (the Volkswagen Beetle), Italy (the Fiat 500) and Britain (Austin Mini), the rise of mass car ownership in France in the 1930s led to a demand for a light, economical “people’s car,” which Citroen answered in the post-World War II years with the 2CV. The company actually began testing the 2CV before the war but kept the project under wraps when war broke out; the original production model was only discovered by chance in the late 1960s. When Citroen finally unveiled the car at the 1948 Paris Motor Show, it was an immediate success: At one point, the waiting time to buy one was five years.

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27' July 1942: The nazi government in the Occupied Eastern Territories warns through a proclamation that any Pole or Ukrainian who attempts to hide or assist a Jew will be shot dead.

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The Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896 is the shortest war on record lasting between 38 and 45 minutes.

Anglo-Zanzibar War: The Shortest War In History

On this day, at 3:42 a.m., an earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude on the Richter scale flattens Tangshan, a Chinese industrial city with a population of about one million people. As almost everyone was asleep in their beds, instead of outside in the relative safety of the streets, the quake was especially costly in terms of human life. An estimated 242,000 people in Tangshan and surrounding areas were killed, making the earthquake one of the deadliest in recorded history, surpassed only by the 300,000 who died in the Calcutta earthquake in 1737, and the 830,000 thought to have perished in China’s Shaanxi province in 1556.

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On this day in 1868, following its ratification by the necessary three-quarters of U.S. states, the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing to African Americans citizenship and all its privileges, is officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution.

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