Date | Text | |||
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100 years anniversary | ||||
24 Jun 1924 | Ranasinghe Premadasa: President of Sri Lanka (1989-93) | |||
24 Jun 1924 | 59th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake | |||
24 Jun 1924 | John Coplans, British photographer (d. 2003) | |||
24 Jun 1924 | Kurt Furgler, Swiss politician, 70th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2008) | |||
24 Jun 1924 | Archie Roy, Scottish astronomer and academic (d. 2012) | |||
24 Jun 1924
James W. Black |
birth James W. Black James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1988) (died 2010) |
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75 years anniversary | ||||
24 Jun 1949 | John Illsley: Leicester, England -- Rock bassist (Dire Straits) | |||
24 Jun 1949 | "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC) | |||
24 Jun 1949 | Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board | |||
24 Jun 1949 | Betty Jackson, English fashion designer | |||
24 Jun 1949 | The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd. | |||
24 Jun 1949 | birth John Illsley, bass, Dire Straits, (1985 US No.1 single 'Money For Nothing', 1986 UK No.2 single 'Walk Of Life', 1985 world wide No.1 album 'Brothers In Arms'). | |||
24 Jun 1949 | "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC) | |||
24 Jun 1949 | Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
24 Jun 1974 | Adam Treu: Guard / tackle (Oakland Raiders) | |||
24 Jun 1974 | Carrie Zarse: Chicago, Illinois -- Diver (1996 Olympics) | |||
24 Jun 1974 | Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired | |||
24 Jun 1974 | Chris Guccione, American baseball player and umpire | |||
24 Jun 1974 | Ruffa Gutierrez, Filipino model and actress | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
24 Jun 1999 | Eric Clapton put 100 of his guitars up for auction at Christie's in New York City to raise money for his drug rehab clinic, the Crossroads Centre in Antigua. His 1956 Fender Stratocaster named Brownie, which was used to record the electric version of Layla, sold for a record $497,500. The auction helped raise nearly $5 million for the clinic. | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
24 Jun 2004 | Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter and author (b. 1957) | |||
24 Jun 2004 | In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional. | |||
24 Jun 2004 | A Fender Stratocaster that Eric Clapton nicknamed 'Blackie' sold at a Christie's auction for $959,500 (£564,412) in New York, making it the most expensive guitar in the world. The proceeds of the sale went towards Clapton's Crossroads addiction clinic, which he founded in 1998. | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
24 Jun 2009 | Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian journalist and politician, 25th Governor General of Canada (b. 1927) | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
24 Jun 2014 | Olga Kotelko, Canadian runner and softball player (b. 1919) | |||
24 Jun 2014 | Ramón José Velásquez, Venezuelan journalist, lawyer, and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1916) | |||
24 Jun 2014 | Eli Wallach, American actor (b. 1915) | |||
24 Jun 2014 | A working draft of Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone', set a record at auction after selling for $2m (£1.2m) at Sotheby's. The manuscript, said to be the only known draft of the final lyrics, was written in pencil in 1965 by the 24 year-old Dylan. |