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 June - 24 the birth of Claude Chabrol, French film director   

1930  The first radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC on June - 24.   

1930  1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC on this day in history.   

1931  On this day in history uSSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty   

1932  On this day in history coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand   

1933  On this day in history sissieretta Joyner Jones, "Black Patti", US singer, dies at about 64   

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

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

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

1938  "Digger" Robertson, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885), dies on June - 24.   

1939  On June - 24 pan Am's first US to England flight   

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

1940  France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II on June - 24.   

1941  On this day in history entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated   

1942  On June - 24 admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered   

1943  Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg on this day in history.   

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

1945  On June - 24 schermerhorn govt forms   

1946  29.77 cm (11.72") of rainfall, Mellen, Wisc. (state 24-hr record) on this day in history.   

1947  Looking skyward this night, Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington on this day in history.   

1948  On June - 24 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   

1948  On this day in history republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey   

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

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

1950  M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1821 Aconcagua on June - 24.   

1952  Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

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

1961  On this day in history beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"   

1962  On June - 24 lucile Watson, actress (Great Lie, Model Wife, Florian), dies at 83   

1963  On this day in history the first demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London   

1963  On June - 24 zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain   

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

1968  On this day in history canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US &1st rookie LPGA winner   

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1244  On this day in history birth of hendrik I, the Child, 1st count of Hessen (1256-1308)   

1322  Johanna, duchess of Brabant/Limburg (Joyful Entry) was born on June - 24.   

1343  On this day in history birth of jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (d. 1373)   

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

1485  On June - 24 birth of johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558)   

1499  Johannes Brenz, German theologist (Dutch Brentians) was born on this day in history.   

1519  On June - 24 birth of theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605)   

1533  On June - 24 birth of robert Dudley, earl of Leicester/English commander-in-chief in Neth   

0803  On this day in history death of higbald of Lindisfarne   

1398  Death of Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328) on June - 24.   

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 this day in history.   

1519  Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander, dies at 39 on June - 24.   

1520  On June - 24 death of hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)   

1572  Death of Adrianus van Gouda, lay brother, hanged on this day in history.   

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