Today in History
~ June 24
St. Jean Baptiste Day -- Canada
St. John the Baptist's Day Midsummer Day, celebrated in Europe.
Events
0843 - Vikings destroy Nantes
1128 - Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa
1298 - Rindfleish Persecutions -- Jews of Ifhauben Austria massacred
1314 - Battle of Bannockburn; Scotlands' King Robert I (the Bruce) at the
head of a force of 5000 Scots
defeated the 20,000 strong army of King Edward, regains independence from
England.
1322 - Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time
1441 - Eton College founded by Henry VI
1497 - The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place as explorer John Cabot spotted land, Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believing he found Asia in Nova Scotia)
1509 - Henry VIII crowned King of England
1527 - Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking RC possessions
1535 - Anabaptists conquered & disbanded
1540 - Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
1622 - In the Dutch invasion of Macau, the Portuguese army, composed of only 150 Portuguese and Macanese soldiers, defeated the 800-strong Dutch army.
1647 - Margaret Brent, a niece of Lord Baltimore, was ejected from the Maryland
Assembly after demanding a place and vote in that governing body.
1648 - Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews & 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
1662 - Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day)
1675 - In colonial New England, King Philip's War began when a band of King Philip's Wampanoag warriors raided the border settlement of Swansee, Massachusetts
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1690 - King William III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland
1692 - Kingston Jamaica founded
1717 - The first Grand Lodge was founded by freemasons in London.
1778 - David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Phila
1793 - The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
1795 - US & Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty
1812 - Napoleon's Grande Armée Invades Russia [H]
1817 - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii, on the Kona coast.
1821 - Battle of Carabobo; Bolivar defeats royalists outside of Caracas
1861 - Tennessee becomes 11th (and last) state to secede from US
1863 - Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac
1864 - Maryland abolishes slavery
1898 - American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba
1900 - Oliver Lippincott became the first motorist in Yosemite National Park when he drove there in his Locomobile steamer.
1901 - Jewish Natl Fund started
1901 - Pablo Picasso's first exhibition was in Paris and offered moody, representational paintings by a young artist with obvious talent.
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1908 - The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died at age 71 in Princeton, N.J.
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
1910 - The Wireless Ship Act of 1910 required all American ships carrying more than fifty people to be equipped with radios.
1915 - More than 800 people died when the excursion steamer Eastland capsized at Chicago's Clark Street dock.
1917 - Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny at Sebastopol
1923 - Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied
1930 - 1st radar detection of planes Anacostia DC
1932 - Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand
1936 - Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
1938 - 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh
1940 - France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II.
1941 - Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated
1941 - Germans advanced into Russia & take Vilna, Brest-Litovsk & Kaunas
1942 - Africa Corps occupy Egypt
1943 - Allies begin 10-day fire bombing of Hamburg
1945 - British bombers destroy the "Bridge Over the River Kwai."
1945 - Russians enjoy a victory parade As drums rolled, 200 soldiers performed a familiar ritual: They threw 200 German military banners at the foot of the Lenin Mausoleum. A little over 130 years earlier, victorious Russian troops threw Napoleon's banners at the feet of Czar Alexander I.
1947 - Flying Saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by Airline pilot Ken Arnold
1948 - Soviet Blockade of Berlin Begins, Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the Western allies to organize the massive Berlin Airlift.
1948 - Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey
1949 - "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)
1949 - Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
1951 - Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations
1952 - Eddie Arcaro set a thoroughbred racing record for American jockeys by winning his 3,000th horse race
1957 - "I Love Lucy," last airs on CBS-TV
1961 - Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait
1963 - 1st demonstration of home video recorder - at BBC Studios - London
1963 - Levi Eshkol forms Israeli govt
1963 - Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain
1964 - FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages
1966 - Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die
1966 - Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
1967 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Sacerdotalis coelibatus (priestly celibacy)
1968 - Resurrection City, a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington, D.C., was closed down.
1970 - "Catch 22" opens in movie theaters
1970 - Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
1970 - Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1972 - "I Am Woman", by Helen, Reddy was released by Capitol Records
1973 - Eamon de Valera, the world's oldest statesman, resigned as president of Ireland at the age of ninety.
1975 - 113 people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1977 - IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
1982 - Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
1982 - Jean-Loup Chretien - first spacionaut - lifts off (Soyuz T-16)
1982 - Soyuz T-6 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 French) to Salyut 7 space station
1982 - Supreme Court rules president cannot be sued for actions in office
1983 - 7th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 2 returns to Earth
1985 - 18th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 5 returns to Earth
1986 - Disputed Ala Dem Gov runoff lets Guy Hunt win (1st Repub in 112 yrs)
1986 - US Senate approves "tax reform"
1987 - Comedian-actor Jackie Gleason died at age 71 at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
1990 - Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan was virtually drowned out by jeering demonstrators as he addressed the Sixth International AIDS conference in San Francisco.
1992 - The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, strengthened its 30-year ban on
officially sponsored worship in public schools, prohibiting prayer as a part of
graduation ceremonies.
1992 - John Gotti begins life sentence in jail
1993 - Arab terror group plans bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught
1995 - The New Jersey Devils won hockey's Stanley Cup as they completed a sweep of the Detroit Red Wings.
1997 - In Freehold, N.J., 18-year-old Melissa Drexler, who gave birth during her
prom, was charged with murder in the death of her baby. (Drexler served three
years in prison.)
1997 - The Air Force released a report on the so-called "Roswell
Incident," suggesting the alien bodies that witnesses reported seeing in
1947 were actually life-sized dummies.
1999 - Testimony wound to an end after 76 days in the landmark Microsoft antitrust trial.
2001 - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon arrived in the United States for
talks with President George W. Bush.
Birthdays
Today
1542 - Juan de la Cruz, [de Yepes], Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint
1771 - E I Du Pont, France, chemist/scientist (Du Pont)
1813 - Henry Ward Beecher, Litchfield Ct, clergyman/orator (Independent)
1839 - Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift & Co.
1842 - Ambrose Bierce, US, satirist (Devil's Dictionary)
1895 - Jack Dempsey (boxer: 'The Manassa Mauler': world heavyweight boxing champion [1919-1926]; NY restaurateur)
1906 - Pierre Fournier, Paris France, cellist (Paris Conservatoire)
1909 - Milton Katims, NYC, conductor/violist (NBC Orchestra)
1912 - Norman Cousins (journalist: Anatomy of an Illness, editor Saturday Review)
1915 - Sir Fred Hoyle, cosmologist proposed steady-state universe theory
1916 - John Ciardi (poet: Homeward to America, Other Skies, Live Another Day, I Marry You, Lives of X)
1919 - Al Molinaro (actor: Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, The Odd Couple, The Family Man)
1922 - Manny Albam (composer: Drum Suite, La Vie en Rose, Afro- Dizzyac, Country Man; music educator: Eastman School of Music)
1922 - Sibohan McKenna, actress
1923 - Jack Carter (Chakrin) (comedian, host: The Jack Carter Show, Cavalcade of Stars, American Minstrels of 1949)
1930 - Claude Chabrol (director: La Femme Infidele, The Cousins, Madame Bovary)
1931 - Billy Casper (golf champion: Masters [1970], U.S. Open [1959, 1966]; PGA Player of the Year [1966, 1968, 1970])
1932 - David McTaggart, cofounder of Greenpeace
1933 - Sam Jones (Basketball Hall of Famer: Boston Celtics: 10 championship teams; NBA Silver Anniversary Team [1971]; coach: Federal City College, North Carolina A&T U.)
1935 - Pete Hamill (journalist)
1935 - Ron Kramer (football: Green Bay Packers tight end: Associated Press All-Pro [1962]; College Football Hall of
Famer)
1942 - Michele Lee (Dusick) (actress: Knots Landing, The Love Bug, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)
1942 - Mick Fleetwood (musician: drums: group: Fleetwood Mac: Dreams, Don't Stop)
1943 - George Brown (actor: The Rookies; director: Alone in the Neon Jungle)
1944 - Arthur Brown (Wilton) (singer: group: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown: Fire; actor: Tommy)
1944 - Jeff Beck (musician: guitar: groups: The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group, The Honeydrippers; car collector: classic Fords)
1946 - Lt. Col. Ellison S. Onizuka (astronaut: mission specialist aboard ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger)
1949 - Phyllis George (sports announcer; Miss America [1971])
1950 - Nancy Allen (actress: Carrie, Robocop, Blow Out, Dressed to Kill, I Wanna Hold Your Hand)
1952 - Dave Lapham (football: Cincinnati Bengals guard: Super Bowl XVI)
1958 - Victor M Gerena, NYC, security guard robbed $7 million (FBI wanted)
1965 - Danielle Spencer, in Bronx
1970 - Glenn Medeiros (singer: w/Bobby Brown: She Ain't Worth It)
1993 - Primera, an Andean condor, hatched at Cleve Zoo, 5th born in captivity
Famous
deaths
1519 - Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander, dies at 39
1572 - Adrianus van Gouda, lay brother, hanged
1572 - Cornelis van Diest, lay brother, hanged
1572 - Daniell van Arendonck, clergyman, hanged
1572 - Joannes van Naarden, priest, hanged
1572 - Ludovicus Voets, priest, hanged
1882 - Joseph Joachim Raff, German opera composer, dies at 60
1908 - Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97), dies at 71
1987 - 'The Great One', Jackie Gleason, passed away on this day, at the age of 71
1997 - Actor Brian Keith was found dead in his Malibu, Calif., home; he was 75.
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