Hisdates•ComHistorical Events In June - 24
Friday, 26 April 2024
1968 Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion on this day in history. 
1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title on this day in history.
1968 Resurrection City closed on this day in history.
1969 On June - 24 maria Belgado, entertainer, dies
1970 Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution on this day in history.
1971 On this day in history jack Good, actor (Father Goose), dies
1973 Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8" on this day in history.
1973 On June - 24 mary Carr, actress (Forbidden Trail, 2nd Wife), dies at 99
1975 113 killed in Eastern Boeing 727 crash at JFK on this day in history.
1975 Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113 on June - 24.
1977 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976 on this day in history.
1978 North Yemen President assassinated on June - 24.
1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat on June - 24.
1982 First Frenchman launches into orbit, as part of Soviet mission on June - 24.
1982 On this day in history jean-Loup Chretien, first spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16)
1983 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB on this day in history.
1983 Syria expels PLO leader Yasser Arafat on this day in history.
1984 On June - 24 william Keighley, dir (Man who came to Dinner), dies of a stroke at 94
1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth on this day in history.
1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F on this day in history.
1985 The motion picture " Cocoon", directed by Ron Howard, grossed some $7.9 million during its opening weekend across the country. "Cocoon", which had a brilliant cast, including screen legend Don Ameche, beat out "Rambo First Blood, Part II" starring Sylvester Stallone, in firstweekend receipts on this day in history.
1985 On June - 24 the wife of exiled Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn became a U.S. citizen.
1985 The motion picture " Cocoon", directed by Ron Howard, grossed some $7.9 million during its opening weekend across the country. "Cocoon", which had a brilliant cast, including screen legend Don Ameche, beat out "Rambo: First Blood, Part II" starring Sylvester Stallone, in firstweekend receipts on this day in history.
1986 On June - 24 guy Hunt elected first Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
1986 US Senate approves "tax reform" on June - 24.
1987 On June - 24 ‘The Great One’, Jackie Gleason, passed away on this day, at the age of 71. Gleason was one of TV’s biggest stars in the 1950s and 1960s. He started on the DuMont Television Network, became a celebrated fixture on CBSTV, and later, a movie star. He starred in honored films such as, "Gigot" and "The Hustler". He also starred in "Smokey and the Bandit". Jackie Gleason is best remembered from TV, however, as bus driver Ralph Kramden in "The Honeymooners", which still ranks as one of TV’s greatest sitcoms.
1987 On this day in history hophnie Hobah Hines Johnson, cricketer (3 Tests for WI), dies
1991 Martin Rosenblatt, actor (Splitz, Annie Hall, NY Stories), dies at 74 on this day in history.
1992 Juris Podnieks, cameraman/director (Commandant), drowns on June - 24.
1994 On June - 24 leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder of the LSE, dies at 83
1995 Inshan Ali, cricketer (WI chinaman bowler 1971-77), dies on this day in history.
1996 On this day in history quinton Hazell, businessman, dies at 76
1997 On June - 24 "Mars Attacks!" becomes the first DVD ever to incorporate sound with menus
1997 June 24 - Port Colborne Harbour Railway, a division of the Caledonia and Hamilton Southern Railway (Trillium Rail), starts operation between Welland and Port Colbourne on the following lines in Ontario CN Port Colbourne Spur (6.6 miles). Macy Spur (west of the Welland Canal). Government Spur (off Macy Spur). a new 1.1 mile connection between the Port Colbourne Spur and the Macy Spur on June - 24.
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