On this day 24 July

Figo makes enemies...

And they're all from Catalonia...

 

For all that they are paid a lot of money, footballers sometimes have to put up with a lot of unwarranted stick. Booing, chants, jibes about their wives and girlfriends. But today in 2000, Luis Figo made sure that he would have than just boos and chanting to worry about the next time he made a trip to the club he was leaving. For it was the day that he made a then world-record £38m move from Barcelona to arch rivals Real Madrid, prompting the wrath of the fans who used to idolize him. On his return to the Nou Camp with Madrid, he was greeted with chants of "Pesetero" (money whore), and was thrown presents such as cans, whiskey bottles and a pig's head. Makes the chanting of "Judas" in this country seem a little tame now doesn't it?

On this day in 1974 president Richard Nixon was ordered by The Supreme Court to hand over tape recordings of White House conversations about the Watergate affair. When the tapes were finally released, more than 18 minutes of a crucial meeting were found to be missing – the official explanation was that the president's secretary had accidentally erased it, but the House Judiciary Committee were having none of it and on July 27 it recommended that the president be impeached and removed from office. Nixon resigned before the House debate on his impeachment could begin.

Meanwhile, it’s Lihkos Riegadanbeaivvis! as they say in Lapland, to Latino pop actress Jennifer Lopez (39), Wonder Woman herself Lynda Carter (57) and Amelia Earhart (who would have been 111).