Page 6: Historical Events In June - 24

1928  32nd US Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields Ill on June - 24.   

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

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

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

1931  On June - 24 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 this day in history.   

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  On June - 24 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania   

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

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

1939  On June - 24 pan Am's 1st US to England flight   

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

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

1942  On this day in history 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 June - 24.   

1945  On June - 24 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  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 June - 24 republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey   

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

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 this day in history lodewijk Mortelmans, composer, dies at 84   

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

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

1962  Lucile Watson, actress (Great Lie, Model Wife, Florian), dies at 83 on June - 24.   

1963  On this day in history 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  Canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US &1st rookie LPGA winner on this day in history.   

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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 this day in history.   

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

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

1485  Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558) was born on June - 24.   

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

1519  Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605) was born on this day in history.   

1533  On this day in history 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  On June - 24 death of hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328)   

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

1475  On June - 24 albrecht von Eyb, German parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt), dies at 54   

1519  On this day in history 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  Death of Adrianus van Gouda, lay brother, hanged on June - 24.   

1604  Death of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1550) on this day in history.