more events on June 24
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1970
The U.S. Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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1964
The Federal Trade Commission announces that, starting in 1965, cigarette makers must include warning labels about the harmful effects of smoking.
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1955
Soviet MIGs down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.
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1953
John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announce their engagement.
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1948
The Soviet Union begins the Berlin Blockade, America responds with the Berlin Airlift.
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1943
Royal Air Force Bombers hammer Muelheim, Germany, in a drive to cripple the Ruhr industrial base.
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1941
President Franklin Roosevelt pledges all possible support to the Soviet Union.
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1940
France signs an armistice with Italy.
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1931
The Soviet Union and Afghanistan sign a treaty of neutrality.
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1930
Claude Chabrol, French film director (The Cousins, Madame Bovary).
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1916
John Ciardi, poet.
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1915
Fred Hoyle, British mathematician and astronomer.
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1913
Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace.
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1912
Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review.
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1910
The Japanese army invades Korea.
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1901
Harry Partch, composer.
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1896
Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Harvard University.
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1895
Jack Dempsey, American boxer and world heavyweight champion.
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1883
Victor Francis Hess, physicist.
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1862
U.S. intervention saves the British and French at the Dagu Forts in China.
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1861
Federal gunboats attack Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia.
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1859
At the 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.
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1848
Brooks Adams, American historian, son of Charles Francis Adams (The Law of Civilization and Decay).
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1842
Ambrose Bierce, American writer and satirist (The Friend’s Delight, The Devil’s Dictionary).
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1813
Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman.
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1812
Napoleon crosses the Neman River and invades Russia.
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1675
King Philip’s War begins.
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1664
The colony of New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, is founded.
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1647
Margaret Brent, demands a voice and a vote for herself in the Maryland colonial assembly.
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1509
Henry VIII is crowned King of England.
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1497
Explorer John Cabot lands in North America in present-day Canada.
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1340
The English fleet defeats the French fleet at Sluys, off the Flemish coast.
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1314
Scottish forces, led by Robert the Bruce, win an overwhelming victory against English King Edward II at the Battle of Bannockburn.
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217
Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal destroy a Roman army under consul Gaius Flaminius in a battle at Lake Trasimene in central Italy.