Greta Thunberg, featured on the track

" The 1975" is a song by the band of the same name and the first track on Notes on a Conditional Form (2020), their fourth album. In the song, Greta Thunberg (pictured) calls for civil disobedience in response to climate change, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Each of their three previous albums began with a track titled "The 1975" that used the same lyrics, beginning "Go down / Soft sound", but the lead vocalist Matty Healy thought it was important to give a platform to Thunberg, the "voice of this generation". After the recording in Stockholm, they released the song earlier than intended—on 24 July 2019. Proceeds from the song were donated to the grassroots environmental movement Extinction Rebellion, at Thunberg's request. The band opened encores at their performances with the song, before the COVID-19 pandemic halted their touring. It was received positively by music critics, many of whom praised the album's transition from the end of "The 1975" into the punk rock song " People". ( Full article...)

J. S. Moll

• ... that the banker J. S. Moll (pictured) was selected for the British Lions despite never having played for the England national rugby team?
• ... that two male penguins from Heythrop Zoological Gardens were "married" in February 2019?
• ... that at the 2016 Summer Olympics, French sailor Hélène Defrance won a medal by a single point?
• ... that Kibu.com was shut down 46 days after it was launched?
• ... that Ian Board ejected Colony Room regular Francis Bacon shouting: "Get out! Call yourself a painter. You can't fucking paint. Take your boring friends with you and don't bother coming back"?
• ... that in developing the Dictionary of Women Worldwide, editors Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer found other biographical dictionaries often devoted only five percent of their text to women?
• ... that Wendy Solling was a nun, a sculptor and one of the first women ordained in the Anglican Church of Australia?
• ... that a 620,000-word My Little Pony fanfiction work based on Fallout has developed a fandom of its own?

Brisbane

• The Australian city of Brisbane (pictured) is announced as the host city of the 2032 Summer Olympics.
• In sumo, Terunofuji Haruo becomes the 73rd yokozuna.
• Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City in England is stripped of its status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to modern development in the area.
• Floods and landslides result in at least 56 deaths in Henan, China.
• Investigative journalists at the Pegasus Project report that multiple governments have used cyberweapons against heads of state, journalists, human rights activists, political opponents and dissidents.

July 24: Pioneer Day in Utah, United States ( 1847)

Khrushchev and Nixon debating

• 1411 – Scottish clansmen led by Donald of Islay, Lord of the Isles, and Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, fought the Battle of Harlaw near Inverurie, Scotland.
• 1910 – Ottoman forces captured the city of Shkodër, ending the Albanian revolt of 1910.
• 1959 – Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. vice president Richard Nixon held an impromptu debate (pictured) at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow.
• 1980 – At the Moscow Olympics, the Australian swimming team, nicknamed the Quietly Confident Quartet, won the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay.