Wall Street whizzes may imagine they are Masters of the Universe, but English financiers fancy themselves as giant sumo wrestlers. The brokers in London's Broadgate Development, left, are doing mock battle with 12-foot-tall, 40-pound sculptured rubber sumos.
"You can take on giants," says Tod Cody, proprietor of Cody's, which makes circus props and leases the balloons for $750 a day. "You can use your aggression, but you have to channel it through these giant soft-rubber figures."
The inflated sumos have also appeared at sporting events. "Britain has had a reputation for soccer hooliganism," says Cody, "and a psychologist recommended that our giant sumos do battle during halftime, so it would be aggression by proxy." The idea, which Cody claims is working, is that the hooligans, entranced by the balloon battle, forgo their own.
Perhaps the sumos might provide a new way for America and Japan to settle conflicts over rice, cars and cellular phones. Negotiation by balloon" Another One from 1994 New York Times Archives
 
And...I think the sumos did? :P  I have no idea what "negotiation by balloon" means. Just floating there at the end like that. Floating balloons :P
 
You know, when you look through news archives of July 24 way back when, you come up with lots of bad news. Cyprus comes up a lot. In those days I guess no one really cared about much else or had time for much else.
 
*sigh*
 
So, here are some years when July 24 was an important day.
I used the first three links I gave you guys as reference.
1468 – Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria. born
1505   On their way to India, a group of Portuguese explorers sack the city-state of Kilwa.
1783 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan commander and politician, 2nd President of Venezuela. born
1791   Robespierre expels all Jacobins opposed to the principles of the French Revolution.
1821 – William Poole, American boxer and gangster. born
1823 – Slavery is abolished in Chile.
1860 – Princess Charlotte of Prussia and Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter. born. (Instead of "The Pooch and the Pauper" its "The Princess and the Painter" :P )
1866 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
1897 – Amelia Earhart, American pilot and author. born
1897   African-American soldiers of the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps arrive in St. Louis, Mo., after completing a 40-day bike ride from Missoula, Montana. 
1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
1920   Bella Abzug, the first Jewish woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. born
1921 – Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian tenor. born
1934 – Sante Kimes, American murderer. born
1941 – John Bond, English banker. born. (Not James Bond, guys, haha)
1946 – Gallagher, American comedian and actor. born
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1969 – Uzay Heparı, Turkish composer, music producer, songwriter and actor. born
1969 – Jennifer Lopez, American actress, singer, and dancer. born
1974   The Supreme Court rules that President Richard Nixon must surrender the Watergate tapes.
1977 – End of a four day long Libyan–Egyptian War.
According to Famous Birthdays website, 48 famous and/or important people were born on this day. Also, lots of stuff happened on July 24, 1969 according to Wiki. People were born and things happened, boy was July 24, 1969 a busy day!
That's all I guess. Maybe I'll do another one of these on another random day.
Happy Random Day and see ya later alligators! :D