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  • 1497 John Cabot claims parts of North America for England in what is now Eastern Canada, believing he has found Asia in Newfoundland
  • 1509 Henry VIII is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey, London
  • 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Armée numbering half a million begin their invasion of Russia by crossing the Nieman River
  • 1853 US President Franklin Pierce signs the Gadsden Purchase, buying 29,670 square-miles (76,800 square km) from Mexico for $10 million (now southern Arizona and New Mexico)
  • 1930 First detection of an airplane using reflected radio waves, a precursor to radar, by US Naval Research Laboratory engineers in Anacostia, Washington, D.C.
  • Children in Berlin await US aircraft dropping candy over the city during the Berlin Airlift in 1948

    The Berlin Candy Bombers

    1948 Soviet Union blockades West Berlin by stopping access by road, rail and water
  • 2022 US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to choose abortion in a 6-3 vote [1] [2]
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  • 1916 Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to receive a million-dollar contract
  • 1880 First performance of "O Canada," the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français
  • 1995 3rd Rugby World Cup, Ellis Park, Johannesburg: Springboks fly-half Joel Stransky lands the winning drop goal in extra time as South Africa defeats New Zealand 15-12

In the longest match in tennis history, American John Isner defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon after 11 hours, 5 minutes of play over 3 days

June 24, 2010

  • Philippa of Hainault

    1313 - 1369

  • Horatio Kitchener

    1850 - 1916
More Birthdays on June 24

  • Jeff Beck

    1944 - 2023

  • Mick Fleetwood

    78 Years Old

  • Ambrose Bierce

    1842 - 1914

  • Jack Dempsey

    1895 - 1983

  • Juan Manuel Fangio

    1911 - 1995

  • Billy Casper

    1931 - 2015

  • Lionel Messi

    38 Years Old

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

June 24, 1374

  • 1885 College professor and future 28th US President Woodrow Wilson (28) weds Presbyterian minister's daughter and artist Ellen Louise Axson (25) in Savannah, Georgia, until her death in 1914
  • 1904 Prime Minister of Canada Arthur Meighen (30) weds Canadian Jessie Isabel Cox (22), until his death in 1960
  • 1914 MLB greatest pitcher Walter Johnson (26) weds Hazel Lee Roberts in Northwest, Washington, D.C., until her death in 1930
  • 1994 Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman
  • 1997 Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry (30) divorces MLB outfielder David Justice (31) after more than 4 years of marriage
More June 24 Weddings

  • Hongwu

    1328 - 1398

  • Lucrezia Borgia

    1480 - 1519

  • Grover Cleveland

    1837 - 1908

  • Carlos Gardel

    1890 - 1935

  • Clarence Campbell

    1905 - 1984

  • Jackie Gleason

    1916 - 1987
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  • A depiction of dancing mania, on the pilgrimage of epileptics to the church at Molenbeek. A painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger.

    The Fatal Dance Manias of Medieval Europe

    The strange social phenomena of Medieval Europe where people began dancing and simply couldn't stop June 24, 1374
  • Actor Harrison Ford

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  • Artist John Collier's painting of Hudson cast adrift with his son

    Deadly Quest For The Northern Passage

    June 22, 1611
  • Mooresburg, Pennsylvania, where Sholes was born, has a board honouring the inventor

    How the Qwerty Keyboard was Born

    June 23, 1868
  • George Armstrong Custer, who developed from being a hopeless cadet to national military hero

    Custer's Last Stand

    June 25, 1876
  • Kennedy looks out over the Berlin Wall. Photo: Associated Press

    Kennedy's Clarion Call for Freedom

    June 26, 1963
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