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July 24, 2015

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Headlines from July 24, 2015

Drug Testing Is Coming to E-Sports

By Nick Wingfield and Conor Dougherty

The Electronic Sports League said on Thursday that it would start testing players for performance-enhancing drugs, a regulation move that would align it with more traditional sports leagues.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 22, 2015, covering July 24, 2015.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Dreams Worth More Than Money by Meek Mill

    Dreams Worth More Than Money

    Meek Mill

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    2
  2. 2
    Album cover for 1989 by Taylor Swift

    1989

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    37
  3. 3
    Album cover for Wildheart by Miguel

    Wildheart

    Miguel

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    2
  4. 4
    Album cover for x by Ed Sheeran

    x

    Ed Sheeran

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    55
  5. 5
    Album cover for Montevallo by Sam Hunt

    Montevallo

    Sam Hunt

    Last week
    8
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    37

Notable Deaths

Peg Lynch

2015Peg Lynch, American actress and screenwriter (born 1916)[†]

Margaret Frances "Peg" Lynch was an American writer, actress, and sitcom creator. The BBC dubbed her, “the woman who invented sitcom”.

Ingrid Sischy

2015Ingrid Sischy, South African-American journalist and critic (born 1952)[†]

Ingrid Barbara Sischy was a South African-born American writer and editor who specialized in covering art, photography, and fashion. She rose to prominence as the editor of Artforum from 1979 to 1988, and was editor-in-chief of Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine from 1989 to 2008. Until her death in 2015, she and her partner Sandra Brant edited the Italian, Spanish and German editions of Vanity Fair.

Historical Context for July 24, 2015

In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]