Page 6: Historical Events In June - 24

1928  On this day in history 32nd US Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields Ill   

1930  On this day in history the birth of Claude Chabrol, French film director   

1930  On June - 24 the first radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC   

1930  On June - 24 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC   

1931  USSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty on this day in history.   

1932  Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand on this day in history.   

1933  On June - 24 sissieretta Joyner Jones, "Black Patti", US singer, dies at about 64   

1936  Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inn, Yanks beat Browns 18-4 on this day in history.   

1936  Nandor Zsolt, composer, dies at 49 on June - 24.   

1938  500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania on this day in history.   

1938  On this day in history "Digger" Robertson, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885), dies   

1939  On this day in history pan Am's first US to England flight   

1939  Pan Am's 1st US to England flight on June - 24.   

1940  On this day in history france signs an armistice with Italy during WW II   

1941  On June - 24 entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated   

1942  Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered on this day in history.   

1943  On June - 24 allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg   

1944  Rio Gebhardt, composer, dies at 36 on this day in history.   

1945  Schermerhorn govt forms on this day in history.   

1946  29.77 cm (11.72") of rainfall, Mellen, Wisc. (state 24-hr record) on June - 24.   

1947  On June - 24 looking skyward this night, Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington.   

1948  Berlin, Germany was completely isolated from the outside world. Joseph Stalin, premier of Soviet Russia, who had already cut rail and road access to the city three months earlier, now blocked all ground and water access and cut electricity to the Western sector. Within a few days, the great Berlin Airlift began. U.S. planes dropped up to 13,000 tons of goods per day for the next 10 months on this day in history.   

1948  Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey on June - 24.   

1949  On June - 24 "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes first network western (NBC)   

1949  On this day in history cargo airlines first licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board   

1950  On June - 24 m Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1821 Aconcagua   

1952  Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer, dies at 84 on June - 24.   

1959  On this day in history lou Bandy, Dutch revue-artist (Life Ain't Bad), commits suicide at 69   

1961  On June - 24 beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"   

1962  On this day in history lucile Watson, actress (Great Lie, Model Wife, Florian), dies at 83   

1963  On June - 24 the first demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London   

1963  On this day in history zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain   

1966  Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die on June - 24.   

1968  Canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US &1st rookie LPGA winner on this day in history.   

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1244  On June - 24 birth of hendrik I, the Child, 1st count of Hessen (1256-1308)   

1322  On this day in history birth of johanna, duchess of Brabant/Limburg (Joyful Entry)   

1343  On June - 24 birth of jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (d. 1373)   

1386  On June - 24 birth of giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456)   

1485  Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558) was born on this day in history.   

1499  On this day in history birth of johannes Brenz, German theologist (Dutch Brentians)   

1519  On this day in history birth of theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605)   

1533  On this day in history birth of robert Dudley, earl of Leicester/English commander-in-chief in Neth   

0803  On June - 24 death of higbald of Lindisfarne   

1398  Death of Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328) on this day in history.   

1439  On June - 24 death of duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382)   

1475  Albrecht von Eyb, German parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt), dies at 54 on June - 24.   

1519  On June - 24 lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander, dies at 39   

1520  Death of Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489) on this day in history.   

1572  On June - 24 death of adrianus van Gouda, lay brother, hanged   

1604  On June - 24 death of edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1550)