Jul 24, 1866: Tennessee became the first Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.

Jul 24, 1862: Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, died in Kinderhook, N.Y.

Jul 24, 1937: Charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case were dropped.

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