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Events on the 24th of June in history

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24 Jun 0109 Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north-west of Rome.
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24 Jun 0451 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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24 Jun 0474 Julius Nepos forces Roman usurper Glycerius to abdicate the throne and proclaims himself Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
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24 Jun 0637 The Battle of Moira is fought between the High King of Ireland and the Kings of Ulster and Dalriada. It is claimed to be the largest battle in the history of Ireland.
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24 Jun 0843 Vikings destroy Nantes
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24 Jun 0972 Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.
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24 Jun 1128 Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa
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24 Jun 1128 Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães: forces led by Alfonso I defeat forces led by his mother Teresa of León and her lover Fernando Pérez de Traba. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" that will be reached in 1139 after the Battle of Ourique.
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24 Jun 1230 The Siege of Jaén started in the context of the Spanish Reconquista.
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24 Jun 1298 Rindfleish Persecutions-Jews of Ifhauben Austria massacred
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24 Jun 1314 First War of Scottish Independence: the Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory by Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce, though England did not recognize Scottish independence until 1328 with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton.
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24 Jun 1314 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
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24 Jun 1322 Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time
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24 Jun 1322 Jews are expelled from France
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24 Jun 1340 Battle at Lock: English fleet beats France / Genuezen, 10-30,000 killed
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24 Jun 1340 In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys French at Sluys
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24 Jun 1340 Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys – The French fleet is almost completely destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.
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24 Jun 1374 A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
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24 Jun 1396 Crusaders under Earl of Nevers reach Vienna
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24 Jun 1397 Sultan Bajezid I release caught crusaders free, for ransom
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24 Jun 1441 Eton College founded by Henry VI
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24 Jun 1497 John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia)
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24 Jun 1497 John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.
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24 Jun 1497 John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England
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24 Jun 1509 Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England.
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24 Jun 1509 Henry VIII crowned King of England
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24 Jun 1522 Battle at La Bicocca: Emperor Karel V beats France
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24 Jun 1522 Portuguese Antonio de Brita signs treaty island of Ternate Molukkas
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24 Jun 1527 Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking RC possessions
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24 Jun 1531 The city of San Juan del Río, Mexico, is founded.
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24 Jun 1535 The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
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24 Jun 1535 Anabaptists Protestants conquerered & disbanded
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24 Jun 1540 Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
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24 Jun 1571 Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines.
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24 Jun 1572 5 clergymen of Enkhuizen, hanged
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24 Jun 1597 The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
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24 Jun 1604 Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
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24 Jun 1619 Tsar Michails father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow
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24 Jun 1622 Battle of Macau: The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau.
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24 Jun 1647 Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council
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24 Jun 1648 Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews and 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
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24 Jun 1658 French fleet recaptures Duinkerk
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24 Jun 1662 Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day)
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24 Jun 1692 Kingston Jamaica founded
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24 Jun 1717 The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London.
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24 Jun 1762 Battle of Wilhelmsthal: The British-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats French forces in Westphalia.
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24 Jun 1778 David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia
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24 Jun 1779 American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
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24 Jun 1793 The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
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24 Jun 1795 US and Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty
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24 Jun 1806 English under commodore Popham / col Beresford reach Buenos Aires
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24 Jun 1812 Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning the invasion of Russia.
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24 Jun 1813 Battle of Beaver Dams: a British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
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24 Jun 1813 Battle of Beaver Dam-British & Indian forces defeat US forces
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24 Jun 1817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
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24 Jun 1821 The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
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24 Jun 1821 Battle of Carabobo; Bol
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24 Jun 1841 Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
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24 Jun 1843 Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy
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24 Jun 1846 Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished
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24 Jun 1852 J R Hind discovers asteroid #18 Melpomene
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24 Jun 1859 Battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France / Sardinia-Austria
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24 Jun 1859 Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
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24 Jun 1861 Battle of Mathias Point, VA-US attacks Confederate batteries
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24 Jun 1861 Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
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24 Jun 1866 2nd Battle at Custozza: Prussian-Austria beats Italian army
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24 Jun 1866 Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
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24 Jun 1880 First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
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24 Jun 1881 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico
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24 Jun 1882 NL expells umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty
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24 Jun 1884 John Lynch is 1st black elected Chairman of the Republican Convention
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24 Jun 1885 British government of Salisbury forms
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24 Jun 1885 Samuel David Ferguson becomes 1st US black Bishop
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24 Jun 1894 Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
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24 Jun 1894 Decision to begin modern Olympics every 4 years
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24 Jun 1897 Hail injures 26 in Topeka Kansas
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24 Jun 1898 American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba
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24 Jun 1901 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris
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24 Jun 1901 Jewish National Fund starts
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24 Jun 1902 King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
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24 Jun 1903 Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist
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24 Jun 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 (.276)
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24 Jun 1908 A Kopff discovers asteroids #663 Gerlinde & #664 Judith
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24 Jun 1908 Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is
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24 Jun 1909 15th US Golf Open: George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood Golf Club - New Jersey
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24 Jun 1909 Best 72 holes of golf at US open (George Sargent-290)
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24 Jun 1910 50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St. Andrews Scot
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24 Jun 1911 17th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago Golf Club - Illinois
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24 Jun 1911 John McDermott becomes 1st American to win US open golf tournament
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24 Jun 1913 53rd British Golf Open: J H Taylor shoots a 304 at Hoylake Hoylake
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24 Jun 1913 Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
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24 Jun 1914 King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent
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24 Jun 1914 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #789 Lena
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24 Jun 1915 800 die as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago
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24 Jun 1916 Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.
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24 Jun 1916 World War I: the Battle of the Somme begins with a week-long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
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24 Jun 1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny at Sebastopol
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24 Jun 1918 First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
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24 Jun 1920 Chuvash Autonomous Region formed in RSFSR
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24 Jun 1922 AFPA changes name to NFL, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears
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24 Jun 1923 Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied
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24 Jun 1924 59th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake
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24 Jun 1928 32nd US Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields - Illinois
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24 Jun 1930 Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium
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24 Jun 1930 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
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24 Jun 1931 USSR and Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty
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24 Jun 1932 A bloodless Revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
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24 Jun 1932 Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand
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24 Jun 1936 Mary McLeod Bethune named Director of Negro Affairs in National Youth Administration
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24 Jun 1936 Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inn, Yanks beat Browns 18-4
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24 Jun 1938 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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24 Jun 1938 Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
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24 Jun 1939 Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Pibulsonggram, the country's third prime minister.
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24 Jun 1939 Pan Am's 1st US to England flight
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24 Jun 1940 World War II: Operation Collar, the first British Commando raid on occupied France, by No 11 Independent Company.
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24 Jun 1940 France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II
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24 Jun 1941 Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated
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24 Jun 1941 Germans advanced into Russia and took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas
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24 Jun 1942 Africa Corps occupy Egypt
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24 Jun 1942 Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered
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24 Jun 1943 Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg
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24 Jun 1945 Schermerhorn government forms
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24 Jun 1946 11.72" (29.77 cm) of rainfall at Mellen Wisc (state 24-hr record)
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24 Jun 1946 Georges Bidault elected Premier of France
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24 Jun 1946 29.77 cm (11.72") of rainfall, Mellen, Wisc. (state 24-hr record)
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24 Jun 1947 29th PGA Championship: Jim Ferrier at Plum Hollow Country Club - Detroit
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24 Jun 1947 Jackie Robinson swipes home for 1st of 19 times in his career
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24 Jun 1947 Jim Ferrier wins PGA golf tournament
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24 Jun 1947 Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
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24 Jun 1947 Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold
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24 Jun 1948 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates New York gov Thomas Dewey
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24 Jun 1948 Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade
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24 Jun 1948 Start of the Berlin Blockade: the Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
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24 Jun 1948 Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade, so Berlin Airlift begins
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24 Jun 1949 "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)
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24 Jun 1949 The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
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24 Jun 1949 Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
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24 Jun 1950 French government-Bidault resigns
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24 Jun 1950 New York Giant Wes Westrum hits 3 HRs and a triple
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24 Jun 1950 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1821 Aconcagua
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24 Jun 1951 Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations
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24 Jun 1953 KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
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24 Jun 1954 First Indochina War: Battle of Mang Yang Pass — Vietminh troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment ambush G.M. 100 of France in An Khê.
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24 Jun 1955 Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st HR (off Billy Hoeff)
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24 Jun 1956 "Steve Allen Show, " returns on NBC-TV
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24 Jun 1956 2nd LPGA Championship won by Marlene Hagge
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24 Jun 1956 WISC TV channel 3 in Madison, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
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24 Jun 1957 "I Love Lucy, " last airs on CBS-TV
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24 Jun 1957 In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
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24 Jun 1961 "Happiest Girl in the World" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 97 performances
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24 Jun 1961 Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"
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24 Jun 1961 Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait
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24 Jun 1961 Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"
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24 Jun 1962 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA J E McAuliffe Golf Tournament
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24 Jun 1962 Jack Reed's 22nd inn HR leads Yanks over Tigers 9-7
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24 Jun 1963 Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government
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24 Jun 1963 The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
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24 Jun 1963 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
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24 Jun 1963 Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain
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24 Jun 1964 FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages
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24 Jun 1966 Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switzerland), 117 die
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24 Jun 1966 Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
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24 Jun 1967 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Sacerdotalis coelibatus
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24 Jun 1968 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post
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24 Jun 1968 Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleveland 14-3
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24 Jun 1968 Resurrection City in Washington DC closed permanently
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24 Jun 1968 Canadian Sandra Post becomes 1st non-US & 1st rookie LPGA winner
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24 Jun 1968 Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion
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24 Jun 1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title
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24 Jun 1968 Resurrection City closed
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24 Jun 1970 "Catch 22" opens in movie theaters
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24 Jun 1970 Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
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24 Jun 1970 Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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24 Jun 1972 "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6
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24 Jun 1972 Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of US (US Air Force)
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24 Jun 1972 Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st Black Chair of Democratic Convention
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24 Jun 1973 Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1 / 8"
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24 Jun 1973 Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
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24 Jun 1973 The UpStairs Lounge arson attack takes place at a gay bar located on the second floor of the three-story building at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Thirty-two people die as a result of fire or smoke inhalation.
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24 Jun 1974 Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired
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24 Jun 1975 Moon tremor perceived (hit by Taurid meteors)
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24 Jun 1975 113 killed in Eastern Boeing 727 crash at JFK
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24 Jun 1975 Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113
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24 Jun 1976 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany
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24 Jun 1977 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
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24 Jun 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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24 Jun 1979 Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland and steals his 1st base
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24 Jun 1980 Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million
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24 Jun 1981 The Humber Bridge is opens to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years.
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24 Jun 1982 Soyuz T-6 Launch (USSR)
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24 Jun 1982 "The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
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24 Jun 1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
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24 Jun 1982 Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16)
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24 Jun 1983 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB
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24 Jun 1983 Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters
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24 Jun 1984 Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
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24 Jun 1984 Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265
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24 Jun 1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth
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24 Jun 1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F
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24 Jun 1986 US Senate approves "tax reform"
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24 Jun 1986 Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
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24 Jun 1986 US Senate approves "tax reform"
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24 Jun 1987 Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consecutive win streak
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24 Jun 1988 Cleveland pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves
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24 Jun 1988 Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak
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24 Jun 1989 Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th and 40th consecutive bases
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24 Jun 1989 Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China after 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests.
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24 Jun 1990 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
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24 Jun 1991 NHL adopts instant-replay and tenth of second clock in final minute
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24 Jun 1992 Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville HS at 43
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24 Jun 1992 Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball
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24 Jun 1992 Eddie Antar, CEO (Crazy Eddies), $74 m stock fraud caught in Israel
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24 Jun 1992 John Gotti begins life sentence in jail
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24 Jun 1993 Arab terror group plans bombing of Holland / Lincoln Tunnels caught
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24 Jun 1994 1st French "all news" TV (LCI) begins broadcasting
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24 Jun 1994 Jeff Bagwell of Astros is 28th to hit 2 HRs in an inning
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24 Jun 1994 Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman
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24 Jun 1995 Stanley Cup: New Jersey Devils sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
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24 Jun 1995 "Rugby World Cup final": South Africa defeats New Zealand, Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb-Ellis trophy in an iconic post-apartheid moment.
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24 Jun 1997 4-1, Mark McGwire his a 538 foot HR
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24 Jun 1997 Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom
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24 Jun 1997 Seat Mariner Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Oakland Athletics but loses
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24 Jun 2004 In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
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24 Jun 2010 John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
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24 Jun 2010 Julia Gillard assumed office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia.
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24 Jun 2012 Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise, dies.
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24 Jun 2013 Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of abusing his power and having sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in prison.
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