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What happened in history on this day: June 24?
On June 24 in ...
- 1813 - Battle of Beaver Dam: British and Indian forces defeat US forces.
- 1841 - Saint John's College opens in the Bronx, New York.
- 1861 - Tennessee becomes eleventh state to secede from USA.
- 1897 - Hail injures 26 in Topeka, Kansas, USA.
- 1898 - American troops drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas, Cuba.
- 1915 - 800 die as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- 1938 - In Chicora, Pennsylvania, USA, a cow is struck and injured by a 450-ton falling meteorite.
- 1946 - 29.77 cm (11.72 inches) of rainfall, Mellen, Wisconsin. (state 24-hour record)
- 1947 - Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier, Washington state, by pilot Ken Arnold.
- 1948 - American Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates New York governor Thomas Dewey.
- 1949 - Cargo airlines first licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board.
- 1967 - US Congress passes an Act to Authorize Adjustments of Outstanding Silver Certificates and Other Purposes. This allows the Treasury to write off amounts of silver certificates destroyed and remaining in collectors hands, and to cease redemptions in silver one year from adoption of the act.
- 1968 - Last day of US Treasury redeeming US silver certificates for silver, in any form.
- 1970 - US Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
- 1975 - Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashes at JFK Airport in New York, kills 113.
- 1985 - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G) - Discovery 5 - returns to Earth. Payload Specialist Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud completes being the first Arab and first Muslim in space.
- 1986 - Guy Hunt elected first Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years.
- 1993 - A Unabomber bomb injures computer scientist David Gelernter at Yale University.
- 2007 - A wildfire starts in South Lake Tahoe eventually destroying 254 homes in the area.
- 2021 - A portion of the Champlain South Towers condominium building collapses in Surfside, Florida, United States, leaving 98 people dead.
- 2022 - The US Supreme Court overturns the 1973 decision in Roe v Wade which considered abortion a right protected by the Constitution. The overturning decision moves the regulation of legality of abortions back to the individual states.
Births on June 24
- 1813 - Birth of Henry Ward Beecher in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA; clergyman/orator (The Independent).
- 1893 - Birth of Roy Oliver Disney in Chicago, Illinois, USA; CEO of Walt Disney Productions 40+ years, president for 25+ years (dies 1971).
- 1901 - Birth of Harry Partch in Oakland, California, USA; composer (Oedipus).
- 1909 - Birth of Milton Katims in New York City, New York, USA; conductor/violist (WOR-New York City).
- 1919 - Birth of Al Molinaro in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA; actor (The Odd Couple, Happy Days).
- 1922 - Birth of Roy Elihu Travis in New York City, New York, USA; composer (Passion of Oedipus).
- 1923 - Birth of Jack Carter in Brooklyn, New York, USA; comedian/actor (Amazing Dobermans, Octagon, Stage Show, Ed Sullivan Show).
- 1935 - Birth of Terry Riley in Colfax, California, USA; composer (Spectra).
- 1938 - Birth of Walter Willison in Monterrey Park, California, USA; actor (McDuff the Talking Dog).
- 1942 - Birth of Michele Lee in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress/singer (Karen - Knots Landing, Love Bug).
- 1946 - Birth of Ellison S Onizuka in Hawaii; Major US Air Force/astronaut (STS 51C, 51L-Challenger disaster).
- 1950 - Birth of Nancy Allen in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Carrie, 1941, Robocop, Dress to Kill, Another Life).
- 1958 - Birth of Victor M Gerena in New York City, New York, USA; security guard, robbed US$7 million (FBI wanted list).
- 1965 - Birth of Danielle Spencer in the Bronx, New York, USA; actress (Dee Thomas - What's Happening).
- 1969 - Birth of Melissa Gurney in California, USA; tennis player (Virginia Slims of South Dakota, 1986).
Deaths on June 24
- 1908 - Death of Stephen Grover Cleveland at age 71 after a heart attack in Princeton, New Jersey, USA; lawyer, Eric County district attorney (1863-65), Erie County sheriff (1871-73), mayor of Buffalo (1881), governor of New York (1882-85), 22nd US President (1885-89), 24th US President (1893-97).
- 1987 - Death of Jackie Gleason at age 71 of liver and colon cancer; comedian/actor (The Life of Riley (1949), Cavalcade of Stars (1950), Ralph Kramden - The Honeymooners).
- 2005 - Death of Paul Winchell at age 82 in Los Angeles, California, USA; ventriloquist (dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff on TV in 1950s/60s), inventor, children's TV show host (Winchell-Mahoney Time), voice actor (Tigger - Winnie the Pooh films).
- 2008 - Death of Leonid Hurwicz, American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917).
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