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June, 24: Historical Events
Chronological list of historical events for June, 24
0451 : 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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; Scotland regains independence from England
1322 : Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time
1340 : Battle at Lock: English fleet beats France/Genuezen, 10-30,000 killed
1340 : In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys French at Sluys
1396 : Crusaders under earl of Nevers reach Vienna
1397 : Sultan Bajezid I release caught crusaders free, for ransom
1441 : Eton College founded by Henry VI
1472 : Zo Paleologa departs Rome for Moscow
1497 : John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia)
1509 : Henry VIII crowned King of England
1522 : Battle at La Bicocca: Emperor Karel V beats France
1522 : Portuguese Antonio de Brita signs treaty island of Ternate Molukkas
1527 : Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking RC possessions
1529 : Zrich & catholic kantons sign Peace of Kappel
1535 : Anabaptists Protestants conquered & disbanded
1535 : Hessische troops occupy Mnster
1540 : Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
1572 : 5 clergymen of Enkhuizen, hanged
1597 : Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches Bantam, West Java
1610 : Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russia & Sweden
1619 : Tsar Michails father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow
1647 : Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council
1648 : Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews & 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
1658 : French fleet recaptures Duinkerk
1662 : Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day)
1690 : King Willem III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland [OS=June 14]
1692 : Kingston Jamaica founded
1717 : 1st Free Masons' grand lodge founded in London
1778 : David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia
1793 : 1st republican constitution in France adopted
1795 : US & Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty
1806 : English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires
1813 : Battle of Beaver Dam-British & Indian forces defeat US forces
1817 : 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
1821 : Battle of Carabobo; Bolvar defeats royalists outside of Caracas
1841 : Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
1843 : Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy
1846 : Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished
1859 : Battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France/Sardinia-Austria
1861 : Battle of Mathias Point, VA-US attacks Confederate batteries
1861 : Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
1863 : Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac
1866 : 2nd Battle at Custozza: Prussian-Austria beats Italian army
1881 : 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico
1882 : NL expels umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty
1884 : John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention
1885 : British government of Salisbury forms
1885 : Samuel David Ferguson becomes 1st US black bishop
1894 : Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
1897 : Hail injures 26 in Topeka Kansas
1898 : American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba
1900 : Dutch Social-Democratic Worker's party & Socialistenbond merge
1901 : 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris
1901 : Jewish National Fund starts
1903 : Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist
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)
1909 : 15th US Golf Open: George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood GC NJ
1910 : 50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St Andrews Scot
1911 : 17th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago GC in Ill
1913 : 53rd British Golf Open: J H Taylor shoots a 304 at Hoylake Hoylake
1914 : King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent
1915 : 800 dies as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago
1917 : Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny at Sebastopol
1920 : Chuvash Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR
1922 : AFPA changes name to NFL, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears
1923 : Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied
1924 : 59th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake
1928 : 32nd US Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields Ill
1930 : 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
1930 : Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium
1931 : USSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty
1932 : Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand
1936 : Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inn, Yanks beat Browns 18-4
1936 : Mary McLeod Bethune named director of Negro Affairs in Natl Youth Adm
1938 : 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1939 : Pan Am's 1st US to England flight
1940 : France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II
1941 : Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated
1941 : Germans advanced into Russia & took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk & Kaunas
1942 : Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered
1942 : Africa Corps occupy Egypt
1943 : Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg
1945 : Schermerhorn govt forms
1946 : 11.72" (29.77 cm) of rainfall at Mellen Wisc (state 24-hr record)
1946 : Georges Bidault elected premier of France
1947 : 29th PGA Championship: Jim Ferrier at Plum Hollow CC Detroit
1947 : Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold
1947 : Jackie Robinson swipes home for 1st of 19 times in his career
1947 : Jim Ferrier wins PGA golf tournament
1948 : Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey
1948 : Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade
1949 : "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)
1949 : A M de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog arrested in Scheveningen Neth
1949 : Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
1950 : Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open
1950 : French government-Bidault resigns
1950 : NY Giant Wes Westrum hits 3 HRs & a triple
1951 : Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations
1953 : KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 : "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" closes at Imperial NYC after 229 perf
1955 : Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st HR (off Billy Hoeff)
1956 : "Steve Allen Show," returns on NBC-TV
1956 : 2nd LPGA Championship won by Marlene Hagge
1956 : WISC TV channel 3 in Madison, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 : "I Love Lucy," last airs on CBS-TV
1960 : Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa v England Lord's
1961 : "Happiest Girl in the World" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 97 perfs
1961 : Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"
1961 : Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait
1962 : Betsy Rawls wins LPGA J E McAuliffe Golf Tournament
1962 : Jack Reed's 22nd-inning HR wins longest NY Yankee game in history
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
1967 : Zare adopts constitution
1968 : 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post
1968 : Australia all out for 78 v England at Lord's
1968 : Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion
1968 : Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleve 14-3
1968 : Joe Frazier TKOs Manuel Ramos in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 : Resurrection City in Wash DC closed permanently
1970 : "Catch 22" opens in movie theaters
1970 : Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
1970 : Reds play final game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, beat Giants 5-4
1970 : Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1972 : "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6
1972 : Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of US (US Air Force)
1972 : Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair in Dem convention
1973 : Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8"
1973 : Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
1974 : India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins
1974 : Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired
1975 : Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113
1975 : Moon tremor perceived (hit by Taurid meteors)
1976 : 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany
1977 : IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
1979 : Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1979 : Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland & steals his 1st base
1980 : Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million
1982 : Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
1982 : Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16)
1982 : Soyuz T-6 Launch (USSR)
1982 : Supreme Court rules pres can't be sued for actions in office
1983 : 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB
1983 : Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters
1984 : Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265
1984 : Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1985 : 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth
1985 : Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F
1986 : Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
1986 : US Senate approves "tax reform"
1987 : CFL's Montreal Alouettes fold
1987 : Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consec win streak
1988 : Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves
1988 : Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak
1989 : Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th & 40th consecutive bases
1990 : Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1991 : NHL adopts instant-replay & tenth of second clock in final minute
1992 : Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville HS at 43
1992 : Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball
1992 : Eddie Antar, CEO (Crazy Eddies), $74 m stock fraud caught in Israel
1992 : John Gotti begins life sentence in jail
1993 : Arab terror group plans bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught
1994 : 1st French "all news" TV (LCI) begins broadcasting
1994 : Jeff Bagwell of Astros is 28th to hit 2 HRs in an inning
1994 : Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman
1995 : Stanley Cup: NJ Devils sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1997 : Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom
1997 : USAF reports Roswell 'space aliens' were dummies
1997 : 4-1, Mark McGwire his a 538 foot HR
1997 : Seat Mariner Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Oakland A's but loses
