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

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

1932  Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand on June - 24.   

1933  Sissieretta Joyner Jones, "Black Patti", US singer, dies at about 64 on June - 24.   

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

1936  On June - 24 nandor Zsolt, composer, dies at 49   

1938  500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania on June - 24.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1941  Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated on June - 24.   

1942  Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered on June - 24.   

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 this day in history schermerhorn govt forms   

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

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

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  On June - 24 republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey   

1949  "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes first network western (NBC) on this day in history.   

1949  Cargo airlines first licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board on June - 24.   

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

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

1959  Lou Bandy, Dutch revue-artist (Life Ain't Bad), commits suicide at 69 on June - 24.   

1961  Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby" on this day in history.   

1962  Lucile Watson, actress (Great Lie, Model Wife, Florian), dies at 83 on this day in history.   

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

1963  Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain on June - 24.   

1966  On this day in history bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die   

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

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1244  Hendrik I, the Child, 1st count of Hessen (1256-1308) was born on June - 24.   

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  Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456) was born on June - 24.   

1485  On this day in history birth of johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558)   

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

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  Death of Higbald of Lindisfarne on June - 24.   

1398  On this day in history death of hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328)   

1439  Death of Duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history death of hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)   

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

1604  Death of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1550) on June - 24.