June 24
1497 - The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took lace 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 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 only person to ever serve non-consecutive terms as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, died in Princeton, New Jersey.
1939 - The Southeast Asian country 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, 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 responded with 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.
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 that allows gay and lesbian couples to marry.
2012 - Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, died at a Galapagos National Park, making the subspecies extinct.
2012 - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a settlement that would bring $405 million to victims of Bernard Madoff’s historic investment scam.
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 then reinstated it.)
2020 - Three white men were indicted on murder chargers 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.)
2021 - A 12-story condominium building in Surfside, Florida, collapsed, killing 98 people.
2021 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would create a special committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol; Senate Republicans had blocked legislation that would form a bipartisan commission to investigate the attack.
Birthdays
24 - Liana Ramirez (actress)
28 - Erin Moriarty (actress)
29 - Beanie Feldstein (actress)
31 - Max Ehrich (actor)
34 - Stassi Schroeder (reality star)
35 - Lionel Messi (soccer player)
36 - Solange Knowles (singer)
37 - Candice Patton (actress)
37 - Justin Hires (actor)
41 - Vanessa Ray (actress)
42 - Minka Kelly (actress)
43 - Mindy Kaling (actress)
45 - Amir Talai (actor)
47 - Carla Gallo (actress)
55 - Sherry Stringfield (actress)
57 - Danielle Spencer (actress)
61 - Curt Smith (singer)
61 - Iain Glen (actor)
66 - Joe Penny (actor)
72 - Nancy Allen (actress)
75 - Peter Weller (actor)
75 - Mick Fleetwood (musician)
80 - Michele Lee (actress)
80 - 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 changed its name to the National Football League.
1922 - The NFL's Chicago Staleys rename themselves 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.
1971 - The NBA 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 NHL's Atlanta Flames relocated to Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
1983 - Don Sutton becomes the eighth pitcher in MLB history to record 3,000 strikeouts.
1992 - MLB commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball.
1992 - The Orlando Magic select Shaquille O'Neal of LSU with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1995 - The New Jersey Devils defeat the Detroit Red Wings in a four game sweep to win their first Stanley Cup.
1998 - Center Michael Olowokandi of Pacific is selected by the Los Angeles Clippers with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2001 - Karrie Webb becomes the youngest female golfer to win a career grand slam after winning the LPGA Championship.
2004 - The Orlando Magic select Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy 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. The sets were 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-3) and 70-68 in the longest match in Wimbledon history.
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 Olympics for the first time.
2013 - The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Boston Bruins in six games to win their fifth Stanley Cup.
1497 - The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took lace 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 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 only person to ever serve non-consecutive terms as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, died in Princeton, New Jersey.
1939 - The Southeast Asian country 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, 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 responded with 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.
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 that allows gay and lesbian couples to marry.
2012 - Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, died at a Galapagos National Park, making the subspecies extinct.
2012 - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a settlement that would bring $405 million to victims of Bernard Madoff’s historic investment scam.
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 then reinstated it.)
2020 - Three white men were indicted on murder chargers 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.)
2021 - A 12-story condominium building in Surfside, Florida, collapsed, killing 98 people.
2021 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would create a special committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol; Senate Republicans had blocked legislation that would form a bipartisan commission to investigate the attack.
Birthdays
24 - Liana Ramirez (actress)
28 - Erin Moriarty (actress)
29 - Beanie Feldstein (actress)
31 - Max Ehrich (actor)
34 - Stassi Schroeder (reality star)
35 - Lionel Messi (soccer player)
36 - Solange Knowles (singer)
37 - Candice Patton (actress)
37 - Justin Hires (actor)
41 - Vanessa Ray (actress)
42 - Minka Kelly (actress)
43 - Mindy Kaling (actress)
45 - Amir Talai (actor)
47 - Carla Gallo (actress)
55 - Sherry Stringfield (actress)
57 - Danielle Spencer (actress)
61 - Curt Smith (singer)
61 - Iain Glen (actor)
66 - Joe Penny (actor)
72 - Nancy Allen (actress)
75 - Peter Weller (actor)
75 - Mick Fleetwood (musician)
80 - Michele Lee (actress)
80 - Arthur Brown (singer)
===========================
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 changed its name to the National Football League.
1922 - The NFL's Chicago Staleys rename themselves 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.
1971 - The NBA 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 NHL's Atlanta Flames relocated to Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
1983 - Don Sutton becomes the eighth pitcher in MLB history to record 3,000 strikeouts.
1992 - MLB commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball.
1992 - The Orlando Magic select Shaquille O'Neal of LSU with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1995 - The New Jersey Devils defeat the Detroit Red Wings in a four game sweep to win their first Stanley Cup.
1998 - Center Michael Olowokandi of Pacific is selected by the Los Angeles Clippers with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2001 - Karrie Webb becomes the youngest female golfer to win a career grand slam after winning the LPGA Championship.
2004 - The Orlando Magic select Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy 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. The sets were 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-3) and 70-68 in the longest match in Wimbledon history.
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 Olympics for the first time.
2013 - The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Boston Bruins in six games to win their fifth Stanley Cup.
