On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on June 24:
1542 Juan de la Cruz, [de Yepes], Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint
1771 E I Du Pont France, chemist/scientist (Du Pont)
1797 John Hughes archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx
1811 John Archibald Campbell, Asst Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1889
1813 Henry Ward Beecher Litchfield Ct, clergyman/orator (The Independent)
1820 Henry Rootes Jackson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1822 Birkett Davenport Fry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1832 Edward Harland, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1915
1839 Gustavus Franklin Swift founded Swift & Co
1842 Ambrose Bierce US, satirist (Devil's Dictionary)
1850 Horatio Herbert Kitchener England, original Order of Merit member
1895 Jack Dempsey heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26) (Manassa Mauler)
1899 Chief Dan George, actor (Harry and Tonto, Little Big Man.)
1903 Phil Harris singer/actor ("Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette", Voice of Baloo the bear in Disney's "The Jungle Book)
1912 Norman Cousins editor (Saturday Review)
1915 Sir Fred Hoyle cosmologist, proposed steady-state universe theory
1919 Al Molinaro Kenosha Wisc, actor (Odd Couple, Happy Days)
1923 Jack Carter Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Amazing Dobermans, Octagon)
1932 David McTaggart cofounded Greenpeace
1935 Pete Hamill journalist (NY Post)
1942 Michele Lee LA Calif, actress/singer (Karen-Knots Landing, Love Bug)
1942 Mick Fleetwood drummer (Fleetwood Mac) (or 1947)
1944 Jeff Beck Surrey England, singer/songwriter (Jeff Beck Group)
1945 George E Pataki, Peekskill NY, (Gov-R-NY, 1995- )
1946 Ellison S Onizuka Hawaii, Mjr USAF/ast (STS 51C, 51L-Chal disaster)
1946 Robert B. ReiiiiichchA, US Sec of Labor (Clinton)
1947 Peter Weller actor (Robocop)
1950 Nancy Allen NYC, actress (Carrie, 1941, Robocop, Dress to Kill)
1951 Ivar Formo Norway, 50K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 Joe Penny actor (Jake & the Fatman)
1958 Victor M Gerena NYC, security guard robbed $7 million (FBI wanted)
1961 Natalya Shaposhnikova USSR, sidehorse vaulter (Olympic-gold-1980)
1980 Kelly Dutra, Miss Rhode Island Teen USA (1996)
1993 Primera, an Andean condor, hatched at Cleve Zoo, 5th born in captivity
Deaths which occurred on June 24:
1519 Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander, dies at 39
1803 Matthew Thornton, Irish/US physician/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 88
1817 Thomas McKean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 83
1908 Grover Cleveland 22nd & 24th Pres, dies in Princeton, at 71
1922 Dr Walter Rathenau German foreign minister killed by anti-semites
1971 Kenneth Washington actor (Sgt Baker-Hogan's Heroes), dies at 53
1987 Jackie Gleason actor (Honeymooners), dies at 71 in Fort Lauderdale (Alice baby, You're the greatest!)
1997 Brian Keith, actor (Family Affair, The Wind And The Lion), commits suicide at 75
2002 Pierre Werner (88), Luxembourg Prime Minister dies (father of the euro)
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
24-Jun-2003 7 | US: 1 | UK: 6 | Other: 0
US Specialist Cedric Lamont Lennon Baghdad Non-hostile - not reported
UK Lance Corporal Thomas Richard Keys Majar al-Kabir Hostile - hostile fire
UK Sergeant Simon A. Hamilton-Jewell Majar al-Kabir Hostile - hostile fire
UK Corporal Russell Aston Majar al-Kabir Hostile - hostile fire
UK Corporal Paul Graham Long Majar al-Kabir Hostile - hostile fire
UK Corporal Simon Miller Majar al-Kabir Hostile - hostile fire
UK Lance Corporal Benjamin John M. Hyde Majar al-Kabir Hostile - hostile fire
24-Jun-2004 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Captain Christopher S. Cash Ba’qubah Hostile - hostile fire - ambush
US Specialist Daniel A. Desens Ba’qubah Hostile - hostile fire - ambush
US Staff Sergeant Charles A. Kiser Mosul (western part) Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
Afghanistan
06/24/04 Thacker, Juston Tyler Lance Corporal 21 Marine 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division Hostile - hostile fire - ambush Barikowt (near), Kunar Province Bluefield West Virginia
06/24/04 McClenney, Daniel B. Private 1st Class 19 Marine 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division Hostile - hostile fire - ambush Barikowt (near), Kunar Province Shelbyville Tennessee
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0451 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
0843 Vikings destroy Nantes
1128 Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa
1298 Rindfleish Persecutions-Jews of Ifhauben Austria massacred
1314 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
1322 Jews are expelled from France
1340 In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys French at Sluys
1441 Eton College founded by Henry VI
1497 John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England
1509 Henry VIII crowned King of England
1527 Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking RC possessions
1535 Anabaptists Protestants conquerered & disbanded
1540 Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
1648 Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews and 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
1778 David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia
1793 1st republican constitution in France adopted
1795 US and Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty
1812 Napoleon crosses the Nieman (Nemunas) River [in Lithuania] and invades Russia
1813 Battle of Beaver Dam-British & Indian forces defeat US forces
1817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
1821 Battle of Carabobo; Bolivar defeats royalists outside of Caracas
1841 Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
1859 Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the Three Sovereigns, the French army led by Napoleon III defeats the Austrian army under Franz Joseph I in northern Italy
1861 Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
1861 Federal gunboats attack Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia
1862 U.S. intervention saved the British and French at the Dagu forts in China.
1863 Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crossed the Potomac
1881 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico
1882 NL expells umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty
1884 John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention
1885 Samuel David Ferguson becomes 1st US black bishop
1894 Decision to begin modern Olympics every 4 years
1897 Hail injures 26 in Topeka Kansas
1898 American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba
1901 Jewish National Fund starts
1908 A Kopff discovers asteroids #663 Gerlinde & #664 Judith
1908 Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71 (.276)
1910 Japanese army invade Korea
1915 800 die as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago
1922 AFPA changes name to NFL, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears
1930 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
1932 Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand
1939 Pan Am's 1st US to England flight
1940 France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II
1941 Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated
1941 German army advance into Russia and take Vilnius, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas
1943 Allies began a 10-day fire bombing of Hamburg
1946 29.77 cm (11.72") of rainfall, Mellen, Wisc. (state 24-hr record)
1947 Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold (and so an industry was born)
1948 Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey
1948 Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade, so Berlin Airlift begins
1949 "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)
1949 Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
1950 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1821 Aconcagua
1950 NY Giant Wes Westrum hits 3 HRs & a triple
1955 Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st HR (off Billy Hoeff)
1955 Soviet MIG’s down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.
1957 "I Love Lucy," last airs on CBS-TV
1961 Iraq demanded dominion over Kuwait.
1963 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
1963 Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain
1966 Period of "relative" peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
1967 Pope Paul VI published his encyclical Sacerdotalis coelibatus (priestly celibacy).
1968 Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion
1968 Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleve 14-3
1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title
1970 Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
1970 Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1973 Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8"
1975 113 killed in Eastern Boeing 727 crash at JFK
1977 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
1980 Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million
1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
1982 Supreme Court rules pres can't be sued for actions in office
1982 Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16)
1983 Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters
1986 Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
1986 US Senate approves "tax reform"
1988 Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves
1992 John Gotti begins life sentence in jail
1993 Arab terror group plans bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught
1997 USAF reports Roswell 'space aliens' were dummies (Gee ya think?)
1997 It was reported that a man from Rio Vista, Ca., was doing a good business selling the moon’s real estate. Dennis Hope was charging $15.99 for 1,777 acres of lunar land plus tax and shipping.
1998 Turkish constitutional court ruled that adultery was no longer a crime for women.
2002 Pres. Bush outlined his blueprint for peace in the Middle East. His statement included a call on Palestinians to replace Yasser Arafat with leaders "not compromised by terror" and adopt democratic reforms that could produce an independent state within three years
2004 Western advisers completed their handover Iraq’s remaining government ministries. The final 11 of 25 were handed over 6 days before the official end of coalition occupation. HELLO, Teddy. Anyone home? HELLO!
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Azores : Feriado Municipal Augra
Canada, PR : St John the Baptist/St Jean Baptiste Day/San Juan Day
Europe : Midsummer Day
Peru : Countryman's Day/Day of the Indian/Dia del Indio
Scotland : Bannockburn Day (1314)
Venezuala : Army Day/Carabobo Day (1821)
Zaire : Constitution Day
National Sheriff's Week (Day 5)
Middle Children's Day.
Mid Summer Day
Swim a Lap Day
Fiction is Fun Month
Religious Observances
Ang, RC, Luth, Cong : Solemnity of the Nativity of St John the Baptist
Religious History
1519 Birth of Theodore Beza, French-born Swiss theological reformer. Beza became the acknowledged leader of the Swiss Calvinists, following John Calvin's death in 1564.
1527 King Gustavus of Sweden assembled the Diet of Wester's, for the purpose of carrying through the Protestant Reformation in Sweden.
1803 Birth of George J. Webb, American church organist. He compiled several collections of sacred music during his lifetime, and also composed the melody to the hymn, 'Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus.'
1917 Death of Orville J. Nave (born 1841), U.S. Armed Services chaplain and compiler of the popular 'Nave's Topical Bible.'
1941 The two-day Constitutional Assembly of the Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan opened, during which was formed the United Church of Christ in Japan.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Some Residents Of Hitler Road Want Street Name Changed
CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio -- It's not hard to remember Jim White's address.
He's one of the people who lives on Hitler Road in Circleville, Ohio.
The folks in the area are used to questions and strange looks about the street name. Hitler Road predates the Nazi dictator. Long before Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, the Pickaway County Hitlers were well-known farmers in Circleville and have three roads named after them.
Some residents would like the street names changed. But not White. He's a World War II infantry veteran and said at least the Hitler street is one of a kind.
Thought for the day :
"Here’s my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can’t, he doesn’t."