June 24
1314 - The forces of Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English in the Battle of Bannockburn.
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.
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 Indians, began with Indians attacking the Swansea (Massachusetts) settlement.
1793 - The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
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 only U.S. president to serve non-consecutive terms (the 22nd and 24th president of the United States), died in Princeton, New Jersey at age 71.
1940 - France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II.
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 responded 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 - AT&T inaugurated commercial "Picturephone" service between New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. (The service, however, never caught on.)
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.
1998 - AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable television giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
2004 - Federal investigators questioned President George W. Bush for more than an hour in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative's name.
2006 - Patsy Ramsey, who was thrust into the national spotlight by the unsolved slaying of her daughter JonBenet, died at age 49.
2009 - After going AWOL for seven days, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit his mistress.
2011 - New York passed legislation allowing same-sex marriage.
2011 - A defiant U.S. House voted overwhelmingly to deny President Barack Obama the authority to wage war against Libya, but Republicans fell short in an effort to actually cut off funds for the operation.
2012 - Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, died at a Galapagos 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 this fall will consider reinstating it.)
2015 - Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley became the first southern governor to use his executive power to remove Confederate banners, as four flags with secessionist symbols were taken down from a large monument to rebel soldiers outside the state capitol in Montgomery.
2016 - Republican Donald Trump, visiting Scotland, hailed Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, drawing parallels to the anger driving his own presidential campaign.
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.
2020 - The city of Charleston, South Carolina, removed a statue honoring John C. Calhoun, an early U.S. vice president and defender of slavery.
Birthdays
23 - Liana Ramirez (actress)
28 - Beanie Feldstein (actress)
29 - Raven Goodwin (actress)
30 - Max Ehrich (actor)
33 - Stassi Schroeder (reality star)
34 - Snow Tha Product (rapper)
35 - Solange Knowles (singer)
36 - Candice Patton (actress)
36 - Justin Hires (actor)
40 - Vanessa Ray (actress)
41 - Minka Kelly (actress)
42 - Mindy Kaling (actress)
44 - Amir Talai (actor)
46 - Carla Gallo (actress)
54 - Sherry Stringfield (actress)
56 - Danielle Spencer (actress)
60 - Curt Smith (singer)
60 - Iain Glen (actor)
65 - Joe Penny (actor)
71 - Nancy Allen (actress)
74 - Peter Weller (actor)
74 - Mick Fleetwood (musician)
79 - Michele Lee (actress)
79 - 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 took the name of The National Football League (NFL).
1922 - The Chicago Staleys football team is renamed the Chicago Bears by founder, owner and head coach George Halas.
1968 - Jim Northrup (Detroit Tigers) tied a major league baseball record when he hit two grand slams in one game.
1971 - The National Basketball Association modified its four-year eligibility rule to allow for collegiate hardship cases.
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 Atlanta Flames franchise moved to Calgary, Alberta.
1992 - Major League Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball.
1992 - The Orlando Magic select LSU star Shaquille O'Neal with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1995 - The New Jersey Devils sweep the Detroit Red Wings 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 high school star Dwight Howard with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2010 - John Isner of the U.S. defeated Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon in the longest-ever professional match: 11 hours, 5 minutes over three days. The sets were 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-3) and 70-68.
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 - The Washington Wizards select Kentucky guard John Wall with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2012 - Female athletes are allowed to represent Saudi Arabia at the Olympic Games for the first time.
2013 - The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Boston Bruins in six games to win the Stanley Cup.
1314 - The forces of Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English in the Battle of Bannockburn.
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.
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 Indians, began with Indians attacking the Swansea (Massachusetts) settlement.
1793 - The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
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 only U.S. president to serve non-consecutive terms (the 22nd and 24th president of the United States), died in Princeton, New Jersey at age 71.
1940 - France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II.
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 responded 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 - AT&T inaugurated commercial "Picturephone" service between New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. (The service, however, never caught on.)
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.
1998 - AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable television giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
2004 - Federal investigators questioned President George W. Bush for more than an hour in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative's name.
2006 - Patsy Ramsey, who was thrust into the national spotlight by the unsolved slaying of her daughter JonBenet, died at age 49.
2009 - After going AWOL for seven days, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit his mistress.
2011 - New York passed legislation allowing same-sex marriage.
2011 - A defiant U.S. House voted overwhelmingly to deny President Barack Obama the authority to wage war against Libya, but Republicans fell short in an effort to actually cut off funds for the operation.
2012 - Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, died at a Galapagos 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 this fall will consider reinstating it.)
2015 - Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley became the first southern governor to use his executive power to remove Confederate banners, as four flags with secessionist symbols were taken down from a large monument to rebel soldiers outside the state capitol in Montgomery.
2016 - Republican Donald Trump, visiting Scotland, hailed Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, drawing parallels to the anger driving his own presidential campaign.
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.
2020 - The city of Charleston, South Carolina, removed a statue honoring John C. Calhoun, an early U.S. vice president and defender of slavery.
Birthdays
23 - Liana Ramirez (actress)
28 - Beanie Feldstein (actress)
29 - Raven Goodwin (actress)
30 - Max Ehrich (actor)
33 - Stassi Schroeder (reality star)
34 - Snow Tha Product (rapper)
35 - Solange Knowles (singer)
36 - Candice Patton (actress)
36 - Justin Hires (actor)
40 - Vanessa Ray (actress)
41 - Minka Kelly (actress)
42 - Mindy Kaling (actress)
44 - Amir Talai (actor)
46 - Carla Gallo (actress)
54 - Sherry Stringfield (actress)
56 - Danielle Spencer (actress)
60 - Curt Smith (singer)
60 - Iain Glen (actor)
65 - Joe Penny (actor)
71 - Nancy Allen (actress)
74 - Peter Weller (actor)
74 - Mick Fleetwood (musician)
79 - Michele Lee (actress)
79 - 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 took the name of The National Football League (NFL).
1922 - The Chicago Staleys football team is renamed the Chicago Bears by founder, owner and head coach George Halas.
1968 - Jim Northrup (Detroit Tigers) tied a major league baseball record when he hit two grand slams in one game.
1971 - The National Basketball Association modified its four-year eligibility rule to allow for collegiate hardship cases.
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 Atlanta Flames franchise moved to Calgary, Alberta.
1992 - Major League Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball.
1992 - The Orlando Magic select LSU star Shaquille O'Neal with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1995 - The New Jersey Devils sweep the Detroit Red Wings 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 high school star Dwight Howard with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2010 - John Isner of the U.S. defeated Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon in the longest-ever professional match: 11 hours, 5 minutes over three days. The sets were 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-3) and 70-68.
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 - The Washington Wizards select Kentucky guard John Wall with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2012 - Female athletes are allowed to represent Saudi Arabia at the Olympic Games for the first time.
2013 - The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Boston Bruins in six games to win the Stanley Cup.
