Historical Events In June - 24

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

1930  The birth of Claude Chabrol, French film director on June - 24.   

1930  The first radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1933  Sissieretta Joyner Jones, "Black Patti", US singer, dies at about 64 on this day in history.   

1936  Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inn, Yanks beat Browns 18-4 on June - 24.   

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

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

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

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

1939  On this day in history pan Am's 1st US to England flight   

1940  On June - 24 france signs an armistice with Italy during WW II   

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 this day in history schermerhorn govt forms   

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

1947  On this day in history 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 June - 24.   

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 this day in history.   

1949  Cargo airlines first licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board on this day in history.   

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

1952  On June - 24 lodewijk Mortelmans, composer, dies at 84   

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  The first demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London on June - 24.   

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

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

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

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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  Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (d. 1373) was born on this day in history.   

1386  On this day in history birth of giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456)   

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

1499  On June - 24 birth of johannes Brenz, German theologist (Dutch Brentians)   

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

1533  Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester/English commander-in-chief in Neth was born on June - 24.   

0803  Death of Higbald of Lindisfarne on June - 24.   

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

1439  Death of Duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382) on June - 24.   

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

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

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