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Birthday June 24, 1813 Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman, orator |
Birthday June 24, 1839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift & Co |
Birthday June 24, 1842 Ambrose Bierce, satirist |
Birthday June 24, 1895 Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26) (Manassa Mauler) |
Birthday June 24, 1912 Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review) |
Birthday June 24, 1915 Sir Fred Hoyle, cosmologist, proposed steady-state universe theory |
Birthday June 24, 1916 John Ciardi, poet, critic, translator of Dante |
Birthday June 24, 1922 Sibohan McKenna, Actress |
Birthday June 24, 1923 Jack Carter |
Birthday June 24, 1932 David McTaggart, cofounder of Greenpeace |
Birthday June 24, 1935 Pete Hamill is born |
Birthday June 24, 1942 Michele Lee, LA (Falcon's Crest) |
Birthday June 24, 1950 Nancy Allen, Actress |
Birthday June 24, 1965 Danielle Spencer, in Bronx |
History June 24, 1314 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England |
History June 24, 1314 Scotland under King Robert I defeats England |
History June 24, 1441 Eton College founded by Henry VI |
History June 24, 1497 John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England |
History June 24, 1509 Henry VIII becomes King of England |
History June 24, 1647 Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council |
History June 24, 1662 Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day) |
History June 24, 1675 King Philip's War begins |
History June 24, 1778 David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Phila |
History June 24, 1803 New Hampshire Patriot Matthew Thornton dies |
History June 24, 1812 Napoleon's Grande Armee invades Russia |
History June 24, 1817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast |
History June 24, 1861 Tennessee becomes 11th (and last) state to secede from US |
History June 24, 1862 Lincoln consults Winfield Scott |
History June 24, 1864 Colorado Governor orders Indians to Sand Creek |
History June 24, 1885 Woodrow Wilson marries Ellen Axson in Savannah, Georgia |
History June 24, 1901 Jewish Natl Fund started |
History June 24, 1901 Picasso exhibited in Paris |
History June 24, 1908 Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71 |
History June 24, 1915 First operational flight of new German fighter plane |
History June 24, 1930 1st radar detection of planes Anacostia DC |
History June 24, 1936 Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning |
History June 24, 1945 Russians enjoy a victory parade |
History June 24, 1947 Flying Saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by Airline pilot Ken Arnold |
History June 24, 1948 Soviets blockade West Berlin |
History June 24, 1948 Berlin Blockade & Berlin Airlift begin |
History June 24, 1949 Hopalong Cassidy becomes 1st network western |
History June 24, 1949 Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board |
History June 24, 1953 Jacqueline Bouvier and Senator John F. Kennedy announce engagement |
History June 24, 1963 1st demonstration of home video recorder - at BBC Studios - London |
History June 24, 1966 Senate passes landmark auto safety bill |
History June 24, 1970 Senate repeals Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
History June 24, 1970 Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs |
History June 24, 1973 Eamon de Valera resigns |
History June 24, 1973 Martin becomes the U.S. ambassador in Saigon |
History June 24, 1975 Eastern Flight 66 crashes at J.F.K. |
History June 24, 1975 113 killed in Eastern Boeing 727 crash at JFK |
History June 24, 1977 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976 |
History June 24, 1982 Jean-Loup Chretien - first spacionaut - lifts off (Soyuz T-16) |
History June 24, 1982 Soyuz T-6 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 French) to Salyut 7 space station |
History June 24, 1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat |
History June 24, 1983 7th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 2 returns to Earth |
History June 24, 1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 5 returns to Earth |
History June 24, 1986 US Senate approves "tax reform" |
History June 24, 1986 Disputed Ala Dem Gov runoff lets Guy Hunt win (1st Repub in 112 yrs) |
History June 24, 1993 Mail bomb injures Yale professor |
History June 24, 1995 Mandela cheers on South African rugby team |
History June 24, 1997 Disney pulls album on release day |
History June 24, 2005 Tom Cruise raises eyebrows |