Historical Events on June 24

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• 451 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
• 474 Magister Militum of Dalamatia Julius Nepos proclaimed Emperor in Rome - rules only until 475 as the last Western Roman Emperor
• 726 Maya official Ajpach’ Waal pays an important diplomatic visit to Waxaklajuun Ub’aah K’awiil (18 Rabbit), 13th king of Copán (modern Honduras) [1]

• 843 Vikings sail up the Loire with 67 ships and destroy Frankish-held city of Nantes
• 972 Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces; Mieszko I of Poland decisively defeated Odo I of Lusatia
• 1128 Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa
• 1298 Rindfleisch 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 English fleet destroys the French at the battle of Sluys (the Hundred Years' War)

• 1396 Crusaders under Earl of Nevers reach Vienna
• 1397 Sultan Bajezid I releases captured crusaders for ransom

• 1497 Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London

• 1522 Portuguese begin construction of Fort Kastela on the island of Ternate in the Maluku Islands after being encouraged to so by Sultan Bayanullah of Ternate
• 1527 Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking Catholic possessions

• 1529 Zürich and Catholic cantons sign Peace of Kappel
• 1535 Anabaptist commune of Münster captured and its leaders tortured and killed

• 1619 Tsar Michail's father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow
• 1648 Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews and 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
• 1658 French fleet recaptures Duinkerk
• 1662 Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day)
• 1664 Colony of New Jersey founded when Duke of York grants Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret ownership of land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers
• 1692 Kingston, Jamaica, founded after Port Royal at mouth of the harbour destroyed by an earthquake
• 1717 1st Free Masons' grand lodge founded in London

• 1750 Jesuit priest hold first mass in The Little Chapel in Tadoussac, New France (built 1747, now the oldest surviving church in North America) [1]
• 1778 David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia
• 1793 1st republican constitution in France adopted
• 1794 Bowdoin College is founded in Maine, USA
• 1795 US and Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty
• 1806 British under Commodore Popham and Colonel Beresford reach Buenos Aires

• 1813 Battle of Beaver Dams - British and native forces defeat US forces (War of 1812)
• 1821 Battle of Carabobo; Bolívar defeats royalists outside Caracas
• 1829 Former slave Mary Prince is the first women to partition the UK parliament - to return to the West Indies as a free person [1]
• 1841 Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
• 1843 Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside a ghetto in Italy
• 1846 Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished

• 1861 Battle of Mathias Point, Virginia Union forces attack Confederate batteries
• 1861 Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from Union
• 1863 Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac
• 1866 Second Battle at Custozza: the Austrian Imperial army, joined by the Venetian Army decisively defeated the Italian army, despite the Italians' strong numerical advantage
• 1880 First performance of "O Canada," the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français
• 1881 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla, Mexico
• 1882 National League expels umpire Richard Higham from baseball for dishonesty after his links with gambling on games are confirmed
• 1884 John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention
• 1884 The East Cleveland Street Railway Company begins the first U.S. commercial electric streetcar line in Cleveland, Ohio, on the Bentley-Knight system
• 1885 British government of Salisbury forms
• 1885 Samuel David Ferguson becomes 1st US black bishop
• 1894 Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated in Lyon by Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio
• 1897 Hail injures 26 in Topeka, Kansas
• 1898 American troops drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas, Cuba
• 1900 Dutch Social-Democratic Workers' party & Socialistenbond merge

• 1901 Jewish National Fund starts

• 1903 Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionism

• 1914 King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent

• 1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol
• 1920 Chuvash Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR

• 1922 American Professional Football Association renamed the National Football League

• 1928 With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person crews on trolley operations in Canada
• 1930 1st detection of an airplane using reflected radio waves, a precursor to radar, by US Naval Research Laboratory engineers in Anacostia, Washington, D.C.
• 1930 Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium, home of MLB Indians, 1932 to 1993, and NFL Browns, 1946-95
• 1931 USSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty
• 1932 Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand
• 1936 Mary McLeod Bethune named director of Negro Affairs in National 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 advance into Russia and take Vilna, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas
• 1942 German Africa Korps invades Egypt
• 1942 US Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered

• 1945 Schermerhorn government forms in the Netherlands
• 1945 The Moscow Victory Parade takes place
• 1946 11.72" (29.77 cm) of rainfall at Mellen, Wisconsin (state 24-hr record)
• 1946 Georges Bidault elected premier of France
• 1947 Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold

• 1949 "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)
• 1949 A. M. de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog, arrested in Scheveningen, Netherlands
• 1949 Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
• 1950 French government led by prime Minister Georges Bidault resigns

• 1950 New York Giants outfielder Wes Westrum hits 3 HRs & a triple in a 12-2 rout of the Cincinnati Reds at the Polo Grounds V
• 1951 Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations
• 1953 KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting

• 1956 WISC TV channel 3 in Madison, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1957 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States

• 1960 Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa v England Lord's

• 1962 Outfielder Jack Reed hits his only MLB home run in the 22nd-inning as NY Yankees edge Detroit Tigers, 9-7 in slowest extra-inning game in league history; 7:00 hours
• 1963 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
• 1963 Levi Eshkol forms 11th Israeli government
• 1963 Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain
• 1964 FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages
• 1964 In South Africa, the 90-Days Act commences, providing for any person to be detained, without trial, for 90 days; further, the person could be re-arrested under the same law for another 90 days
• 1966 Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I

• 1967 Zaire adopts constitution
• 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 Resurrection City in Washington, D.C. 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 US Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• 1972 Single "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6
• 1972 South African runner Danie Malan sets a new 1,000m world record 2:16.0 in Munich, Germany
• 1972 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill 3 British Army soldiers in a land mine attack near Dungiven, County Derry
• 1972 Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of US (US Air Force)
• 1972 Yvonne Brathwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair of a Democratic convention
• 1973 Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8"
• 1974 India is dismissed for 42 in 17 overs in 2nd Test defeat to England at Lord's; lowest total in country's Test cricket history; Chris Old 5-21, Geoff Arnold 4-19
• 1974 Kansas City pitcher Steve Busby retires first 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batsmen retired; Royals still lose, 3-1 to Chicago
• 1975 Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113
• 1975 Moon tremor perceived (hit by Taurid meteors)
• 1976 1975 movie "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany
• 1976 A Principal's office in Hlengisi Primary, Nyanga, outside Cape Town, South Africa, is burnt down; part of the broader resistance against the oppressive new Bantu Education policy of Afrikaans as a teaching medium in their schools

• 1977 Josiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF)

• 1980 Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million

• 1982 1st spacionaut Jean-Loup Chrétien and 2 Soviet cosmonauts, lift off aboard Soyuz T-16

• 1982 Soyuz T-6 Launch (USSR)
• 1982 US Supreme Court rules president can't be sued for actions in office
• 1983 7th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB

• 1985 18th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-G): Discovery 5 returns to Earth
• 1985 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) 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 team folds
• 1987 Minor League Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consecutive win streak
• 1988 Cleveland 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

• 1991 NHL adopts instant-replay and tenth of second clock in final minute

• 1992 Eddie Antar, American CEO (Crazy Eddies), facing $74M stock fraud charges, caught in Israel

• 1992 MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans pitcher Steve Howe from baseball for repeated substance abuse violations; later overturned on appeal

• 1993 Arab terrorist group planning bombing of Holland and Lincoln Tunnels caught
• 1993 Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber
• 1994 1st French "all news" TV (LCI) begins broadcasting

• 1995 Stanley Cup Final, Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford, NJ: New Jersey Devils beat Detroit Red Wings, 5-2 for a 4-0 series sweep; Devils' first Stanley Cup finals appearance
• 1995 Wrapped Reichstag art installation completed by artists Christo and Jeanne Claude; German parliament building completely wrapped by polypropylene fabric [1]

• 1997 Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom
• 1997 USAF reports Roswell 'space aliens' were dummies
• 1998 NBA Draft: Pacific center Michael Olowokandi first pick by Los Angeles Clippers

• 2002 The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history
• 2004 Capital punishment is declared unconstitutional in New York
• 2004 Christie’s Auction House in New York City conducts sale of 80 of Eric Clapton and friends' guitars to benefit Crossroads Centre at Antigua, a drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation facility he co-founded in 1997, raising over $5M; "Blackie", a 1956-57 composite Fender Stratocaster used as his primary instrument form the mid 70s until 1985 sells for a then record $959,500
• 2004 NBA Draft: Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy power forward Dwight Howard first pick by Orlando Magic

• 2007 The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours

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