June 24
1497 - The first recorded sighting of North American by a European took place as explorer John Cabot spotted land, probably in present-day Canada.
1509 - Henry VIII was crowned king of England; his wife, Catherine of Aragon, was crowned queen consort.
1647 - Early American feminist Margaret Brent demanded a seat and a vote in the Maryland Assembly, but was ejected from that body.
1675 - King Philip's War, the most devastating war between the colonists and the Indians, began with Indians attacking the Swansea (Massachusetts) settlement.
1807 - A grand jury in Richmond, Virginia indicted former Vice President Aaron Burr on charges of treason and high misdemeanor (he was later acquitted).
1853 - President Franklin Pierce signs the Gadsden Purchase, buying 29,670 square miles from Mexico for $10 million (the area included present-day southern Arizona and New Mexico).
1908 - Grover Cleveland, the only person to ever serve non-consecutive terms in the White House as the 22nd (1885-1889) and 24th (1893-1897) president of the United States, died in Princeton, New Jersey at age 71.
1939 - The Southeast Asian country of Siam changed its name to Thailand. (It went back to being Siam in 1945; then became Thailand once again in 1949.)
1940 - France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II.
1946 - Fred M. Vinson was sworn in as the 13th chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, succeeding the late Harlan F. Stone.
1947 - Kenneth Arnold, an American pilot, reported seeing strange objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington. He described them as "saucers skipping across the water," hence the term "flying saucers" was born.
1948 - The Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. Allied forces would respond with what would be known as the Berlin Airlift, flying in more than 2 million tons of supplies over the next year.
1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Roth v. United States, ruled 6-3 that obscene materials were not protected by the First Amendment.
1964 - The Federal Trade Commission announces that, starting in 1965, cigarette makers must include warning labels about the harmful effects of smoking.
1973 - President Richard Nixon concluded his summit with the visiting leader of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, who hailed the talks in an address on American television.
1983 - The space shuttle Challenger, carrying America's first woman in space, Sally K. Ride, coasted to a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, strengthened its 30-year ban on officially sponsored worship in public schools, prohibiting prayer as a part of graduation ceremonies.
1997 - The U.S. Air Force released "The Roswell Report," closing the case on the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico incident concerning UFOs and alien bodies.
2011 - New York passes a law to allow same-sex marriage, becoming the largest state to date to allow same-sex couples to marry.
2012 - Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, died at a Galapagos National Park, making the subspecies extinct.
2013 - Opening statements took place in the Sanford, Florida, trial of George Zimmerman, accused of murdering 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. (Zimmerman was acquitted.)
2015 - A federal judge in Boston formally sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for the 2013 terror attacks. (A federal appeals court later threw out the sentence, however the U.S. Supreme Court would reinstate it.)
2018 - President Donald Trump compared people entering the United States from Mexico to invaders and said they should be immediately sent back without appearing before a judge.
2018 - Women in Saudi Arabia were able to drive for the first time, as the world's last remaining ban on female drivers was lifted.
2020 - Three white men were indicted on murder charges in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was shot while running in a neighborhood near Georgia's coast. (All three were convicted.)
2022 - The U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years -- a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases.
Birthdays
25 - Liana Ramirez (actress)
29 - Erin Moriarty (actress)
30 - Beanie Feldstein (actress)
32 - Max Ehrich (actor)
35 - Stassi Schroeder (reality star)
36 - Lionel Messi (soccer player)
36 - Snow Tha Product (rapper)
37 - Solange Knowles (singer)
38 - Candice Patton (actress)
38 - Ariana Madix (actress)
38 - Justin Hires (actor)
42 - Vanessa Ray (actress)
43 - Minka Kelly (actress)
44 - Mindy Kaling (actress)
46 - Amir Talai (actor)
48 - Carla Gallo (actress)
56 - Sherry Stringfield (actress)
58 - Danielle Spencer (actress)
62 - Iain Glen (actor)
67 - Joe Penny (actor)
73 - Nancy Allen (actress)
76 - Peter Weller (actor)
76 - Mick Fleetwood (musician)
81 - Michele Lee (actress)
81 - Arthur Brown (singer)
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Today in Sports History - June 24
1911 - John J. McDermott became the first American-born winner of the U.S. Open.
1922 - The American Professional Football Association (APFA) changed its name to the National Football League (NFL).
1922 - The NFL's Chicago Staleys changes its name to the Chicago Bears.
1968 - Jim Northrup (Detroit Tigers) tied a major league baseball record when he hit two grand slams in one game.
1974 - Kansas City Royals pitcher Steve Busby retires first nine Chicago White Sox to set the American League record with 33 consecutive batsmen retired; Royals still lose, 3-1 to Chicago.
1979 - Bob Watson (Houston Astros) hit for the cycle against San Francisco. On September 15, 1979, he became the first player to hit for the cycle in both leagues when he did it with the Boston Red Sox.
1980 - The NHL's Atlanta Flames moved to Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
1983 - Don Sutton becomes the eighth pitcher in MLB history to record 3,000 career strikeouts.
1992 - MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans pitcher Steve Howe from baseball for repeated substance abuse violations; the ban is later overturned on appeal.
1992 - The Orlando Magic select LSU center Shaquille O'Neal with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1995 - The New Jersey Devils defeat the Detroit Red Wings in a sweep to win their first Stanley Cup.
1998 - The Los Angeles Clippers select Pacific center Michael Olowokandi with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2004 - The Orlando Magic select Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy power forward Dwight Howard with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2010 - The NHL Board of Governors approved a penalty for a lateral, blindside hit to the head. The penalty an "illegal check ot the head" was set at a five-minute major penalty, an automatic game misconduct and possible supplemental discipline from the League.
2010 - John Isner defeated Nicolas Mahut after 11 hours and 183 games at Wimbledon, in the longest match in tennis history. The sets were 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-3) and 70-68.
2010 - The Washington Wizards select Kentucky point guard John Wall with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2013 - The Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in six games over the Boston Bruins, winning their fifth championship in franchise history.
2013 - In one of Wimbledon's greatest upsets, an ailing Rafael Nadal was knocked out in straight sets by 135th-ranked Steve Darcis of Belgium.
1497 - The first recorded sighting of North American by a European took place as explorer John Cabot spotted land, probably in present-day Canada.
1509 - Henry VIII was crowned king of England; his wife, Catherine of Aragon, was crowned queen consort.
1647 - Early American feminist Margaret Brent demanded a seat and a vote in the Maryland Assembly, but was ejected from that body.
1675 - King Philip's War, the most devastating war between the colonists and the Indians, began with Indians attacking the Swansea (Massachusetts) settlement.
1807 - A grand jury in Richmond, Virginia indicted former Vice President Aaron Burr on charges of treason and high misdemeanor (he was later acquitted).
1853 - President Franklin Pierce signs the Gadsden Purchase, buying 29,670 square miles from Mexico for $10 million (the area included present-day southern Arizona and New Mexico).
1908 - Grover Cleveland, the only person to ever serve non-consecutive terms in the White House as the 22nd (1885-1889) and 24th (1893-1897) president of the United States, died in Princeton, New Jersey at age 71.
1939 - The Southeast Asian country of Siam changed its name to Thailand. (It went back to being Siam in 1945; then became Thailand once again in 1949.)
1940 - France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II.
1946 - Fred M. Vinson was sworn in as the 13th chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, succeeding the late Harlan F. Stone.
1947 - Kenneth Arnold, an American pilot, reported seeing strange objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington. He described them as "saucers skipping across the water," hence the term "flying saucers" was born.
1948 - The Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. Allied forces would respond with what would be known as the Berlin Airlift, flying in more than 2 million tons of supplies over the next year.
1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Roth v. United States, ruled 6-3 that obscene materials were not protected by the First Amendment.
1964 - The Federal Trade Commission announces that, starting in 1965, cigarette makers must include warning labels about the harmful effects of smoking.
1973 - President Richard Nixon concluded his summit with the visiting leader of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, who hailed the talks in an address on American television.
1983 - The space shuttle Challenger, carrying America's first woman in space, Sally K. Ride, coasted to a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, strengthened its 30-year ban on officially sponsored worship in public schools, prohibiting prayer as a part of graduation ceremonies.
1997 - The U.S. Air Force released "The Roswell Report," closing the case on the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico incident concerning UFOs and alien bodies.
2011 - New York passes a law to allow same-sex marriage, becoming the largest state to date to allow same-sex couples to marry.
2012 - Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, died at a Galapagos National Park, making the subspecies extinct.
2013 - Opening statements took place in the Sanford, Florida, trial of George Zimmerman, accused of murdering 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. (Zimmerman was acquitted.)
2015 - A federal judge in Boston formally sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for the 2013 terror attacks. (A federal appeals court later threw out the sentence, however the U.S. Supreme Court would reinstate it.)
2018 - President Donald Trump compared people entering the United States from Mexico to invaders and said they should be immediately sent back without appearing before a judge.
2018 - Women in Saudi Arabia were able to drive for the first time, as the world's last remaining ban on female drivers was lifted.
2020 - Three white men were indicted on murder charges in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was shot while running in a neighborhood near Georgia's coast. (All three were convicted.)
2022 - The U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years -- a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases.
Birthdays
25 - Liana Ramirez (actress)
29 - Erin Moriarty (actress)
30 - Beanie Feldstein (actress)
32 - Max Ehrich (actor)
35 - Stassi Schroeder (reality star)
36 - Lionel Messi (soccer player)
36 - Snow Tha Product (rapper)
37 - Solange Knowles (singer)
38 - Candice Patton (actress)
38 - Ariana Madix (actress)
38 - Justin Hires (actor)
42 - Vanessa Ray (actress)
43 - Minka Kelly (actress)
44 - Mindy Kaling (actress)
46 - Amir Talai (actor)
48 - Carla Gallo (actress)
56 - Sherry Stringfield (actress)
58 - Danielle Spencer (actress)
62 - Iain Glen (actor)
67 - Joe Penny (actor)
73 - Nancy Allen (actress)
76 - Peter Weller (actor)
76 - Mick Fleetwood (musician)
81 - Michele Lee (actress)
81 - Arthur Brown (singer)
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Today in Sports History - June 24
1911 - John J. McDermott became the first American-born winner of the U.S. Open.
1922 - The American Professional Football Association (APFA) changed its name to the National Football League (NFL).
1922 - The NFL's Chicago Staleys changes its name to the Chicago Bears.
1968 - Jim Northrup (Detroit Tigers) tied a major league baseball record when he hit two grand slams in one game.
1974 - Kansas City Royals pitcher Steve Busby retires first nine Chicago White Sox to set the American League record with 33 consecutive batsmen retired; Royals still lose, 3-1 to Chicago.
1979 - Bob Watson (Houston Astros) hit for the cycle against San Francisco. On September 15, 1979, he became the first player to hit for the cycle in both leagues when he did it with the Boston Red Sox.
1980 - The NHL's Atlanta Flames moved to Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
1983 - Don Sutton becomes the eighth pitcher in MLB history to record 3,000 career strikeouts.
1992 - MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans pitcher Steve Howe from baseball for repeated substance abuse violations; the ban is later overturned on appeal.
1992 - The Orlando Magic select LSU center Shaquille O'Neal with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1995 - The New Jersey Devils defeat the Detroit Red Wings in a sweep to win their first Stanley Cup.
1998 - The Los Angeles Clippers select Pacific center Michael Olowokandi with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2004 - The Orlando Magic select Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy power forward Dwight Howard with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2010 - The NHL Board of Governors approved a penalty for a lateral, blindside hit to the head. The penalty an "illegal check ot the head" was set at a five-minute major penalty, an automatic game misconduct and possible supplemental discipline from the League.
2010 - John Isner defeated Nicolas Mahut after 11 hours and 183 games at Wimbledon, in the longest match in tennis history. The sets were 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-3) and 70-68.
2010 - The Washington Wizards select Kentucky point guard John Wall with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2013 - The Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in six games over the Boston Bruins, winning their fifth championship in franchise history.
2013 - In one of Wimbledon's greatest upsets, an ailing Rafael Nadal was knocked out in straight sets by 135th-ranked Steve Darcis of Belgium.
