July 24

Twelve foundation stones for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem were laid on Mount Scopus, seven years before the campus opened.

Hamka (Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah), an Indonesian scholar and author of the Qur'an commentary Tafsir al-Azhar, died in Jakarta.

On 24 July 1911, the explorer Hiram Bingham, guided by local residents, reached the Inca site of Machu Picchu in Peru, bringing the mountaintop settlement to wide scholarly and public attention.