June 24
1497 - The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place as explorer John Cabot spotted land, probably in present-day Canada.
1509 - Henry VIII was crowned king of England and his wife, Catherine of Aragon, was crowned queen consort.
1647 - Early American feminist Margaret Brent demanded a seat and vote in the Maryland Assembly, but was ejected from that body.
1675 - King Philip's War, the most devastating war between the colonists and 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.)
1908 - Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, died in Princeton, New Jersey.
1939 - The southeast Asian country of Siam changed its name to Thailand. (It would go back to Siam in 1945 and 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.
1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Roth v. United States, ruled 6-3 that obscene materials were not protected by the First Amendment.
1948 - The Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. Allied forces responded with what would be known as the Berlin Airlift, flying in more than 2 million tons of supplies over the next year.
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 allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.
2012 - Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, died at a Galapagos Island National Park, making the subspecies extinct.
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; the Supreme Court reinstated it.)
2018 - Women in Saudi Arabia were allowed 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 chargers in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was shot while running in a neighborhood near Georgia's coast. (All three were convicted.)
2021 - A 12-story condominium building in Surfside, Florida, collapsed, killing 98 people.
2022 - The U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years with the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Birthdays
26 - Liana Ramirez (actress)
28 - Harris Dickinson (actor)
30 - Erin Moriarty (actress)
31 - Beanie Feldstein (actress)
33 - Max Ehrich (actor)
36 - Stassi Schroeder (reality star)
36 - Candice Patton (actress)
37 - Lionel Messi (soccer player)
38 - Solange Knowles (singer)
39 - Justin Hires (actor)
39 - Ariana Madix (actress)
44 - Minka Kelly (actress)
45 - Mindy Kaling (actress)
57 - Sherry Stringfield (actress)
58 - Hope Sandoval (singer)
63 - Iain Glen (actor)
68 - Joe Penny (actor)
74 - Nancy Allen (actress)
77 - Peter Weller (actor)
77 - Mick Fleetwood (musician)
82 - Michele Lee (actress)
82 - 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 - Team founder, owner and head coach George Halas renames the Chicago Staleys the Chicago Bears.
1962 - The New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers, 9-7, after 22 innings.
1968 - Jim Northrup (Detroit Tigers) tied a major league baseball record when he hit two grand slams in one game.
1980 - The Atlanta Flames NHL franchise moved to Calgary, Alberta.
1983 - Don Sutton becomes the eighth pitcher in MLB history to record 3,000 strikeouts.
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 to win their first Stanley Cup.
1998 - Pacific center Michael Olowokandi is taken with the first pick in the NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Clippers.
2003 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) became the first player to reach 500 home runs and 500 stolen bases.
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 - In the longest match in tennis history, American John Isner defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon after 11 hours, 5 minutes of play over three days.
2010 - The Washington Wizards selected Kentucky point guard John Wall with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2013 - The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Boston Bruins to win their fifth Stanley Cup.
2023 - Mike Trout, Brandon Drury and Matt Thaiss of the Los Angeles Angels hit three consecutive home runs on three consecutive pitches in a 25-1 win over the Colorado Rockies.
1497 - The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place as explorer John Cabot spotted land, probably in present-day Canada.
1509 - Henry VIII was crowned king of England and his wife, Catherine of Aragon, was crowned queen consort.
1647 - Early American feminist Margaret Brent demanded a seat and vote in the Maryland Assembly, but was ejected from that body.
1675 - King Philip's War, the most devastating war between the colonists and 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.)
1908 - Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, died in Princeton, New Jersey.
1939 - The southeast Asian country of Siam changed its name to Thailand. (It would go back to Siam in 1945 and 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.
1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Roth v. United States, ruled 6-3 that obscene materials were not protected by the First Amendment.
1948 - The Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. Allied forces responded with what would be known as the Berlin Airlift, flying in more than 2 million tons of supplies over the next year.
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 allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.
2012 - Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, died at a Galapagos Island National Park, making the subspecies extinct.
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; the Supreme Court reinstated it.)
2018 - Women in Saudi Arabia were allowed 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 chargers in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was shot while running in a neighborhood near Georgia's coast. (All three were convicted.)
2021 - A 12-story condominium building in Surfside, Florida, collapsed, killing 98 people.
2022 - The U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years with the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Birthdays
26 - Liana Ramirez (actress)
28 - Harris Dickinson (actor)
30 - Erin Moriarty (actress)
31 - Beanie Feldstein (actress)
33 - Max Ehrich (actor)
36 - Stassi Schroeder (reality star)
36 - Candice Patton (actress)
37 - Lionel Messi (soccer player)
38 - Solange Knowles (singer)
39 - Justin Hires (actor)
39 - Ariana Madix (actress)
44 - Minka Kelly (actress)
45 - Mindy Kaling (actress)
57 - Sherry Stringfield (actress)
58 - Hope Sandoval (singer)
63 - Iain Glen (actor)
68 - Joe Penny (actor)
74 - Nancy Allen (actress)
77 - Peter Weller (actor)
77 - Mick Fleetwood (musician)
82 - Michele Lee (actress)
82 - 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 - Team founder, owner and head coach George Halas renames the Chicago Staleys the Chicago Bears.
1962 - The New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers, 9-7, after 22 innings.
1968 - Jim Northrup (Detroit Tigers) tied a major league baseball record when he hit two grand slams in one game.
1980 - The Atlanta Flames NHL franchise moved to Calgary, Alberta.
1983 - Don Sutton becomes the eighth pitcher in MLB history to record 3,000 strikeouts.
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 to win their first Stanley Cup.
1998 - Pacific center Michael Olowokandi is taken with the first pick in the NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Clippers.
2003 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) became the first player to reach 500 home runs and 500 stolen bases.
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 - In the longest match in tennis history, American John Isner defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon after 11 hours, 5 minutes of play over three days.
2010 - The Washington Wizards selected Kentucky point guard John Wall with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2013 - The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Boston Bruins to win their fifth Stanley Cup.
2023 - Mike Trout, Brandon Drury and Matt Thaiss of the Los Angeles Angels hit three consecutive home runs on three consecutive pitches in a 25-1 win over the Colorado Rockies.