On June 24, 1997, the Air Force released a report on the so-called "Roswell Incident," suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.
On June 24, 1895, Jack Dempsey, the American world heavyweight boxing champion from 1919 to 1926, was born. Following his death on May 31, 1983, his obituary appeared in The Times.
On This Date
| 1314 | The forces of Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English in the Battle of Bannockburn. |
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| 1497 | The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place as explorer John Cabot, on a voyage for England, spotted land, probably in present-day Canada. |
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| 1509 | Henry VIII was crowned king of England. |
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| 1793 | The first republican constitution in France was adopted. |
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| 1908 | Former President Grover Cleveland died in Princeton, N.J., at age 71. |
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| 1940 | France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II. |
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| 1974 | The Beach Boys' greatest hits album "Endless Summer" was released. |
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| 1998 | AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable television giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion. |
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| 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. |
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| 2006 | Patsy Ramsey, who was thrust into the national spotlight by the unsolved slaying of her daughter JonBenet, died at age 49. |
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| 2009 | After going AWOL for seven days, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit his mistress. |
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| 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. (Isner won the fifth set 70-68.) |
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Current Birthdays
Rock musician Jeff Beck turns 67 years old today.
AP Photo/Gerald HerbertActress Minka Kelly ("Friday Night Lights") turns 31 years old today.
AP Photo/Dan Steinberg
| 1919 | Al Molinaro, Actor ("Happy Days"), turns 92 |
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| 1923 | Jack Carter, Comedian, turns 88 |
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| 1942 | Michele Lee, Actress ("Knot's Landing"), turns 69 |
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| 1943 | Georg Stanford Brown, Actor, director ("The Rookies"), turns 68 |
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| 1944 | Arthur Brown, Rock singer, turns 67 |
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| 1945 | George Pataki, Former governor of New York, turns 66 |
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| 1947 | Mick Fleetwood, Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac), turns 64 |
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| 1960 | Juli Inkster, Golfer, turns 51 |
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| 1961 | Curt Smith, Rock singer, musician (Tears for Fears), turns 50 |
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| 1967 | Sherry Stringfield, Actress ("ER"), turns 44 |
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| 1979 | Mindy Kaling, Actress, producer ("The Office"), turns 32 |
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| 1986 | Solange Knowles, R&B singer, turns 25 |
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Historic Birthdays
Jack Dempsey6/24/1895 - 5/31/1983American world heavyweight boxing champion.Go to obituary »
| 86 | Theodore Beza 6/24/1519 - 10/13/1605
French author, translator, educator and theologian |
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| 56 | Robert Dudley Leicester 6/24/1532 - 9/4/1588
English favorite of Queen Elizabeth I |
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| 49 | Saint John of the Cross 6/24/1542 - 12/14/1591
Spanish mystic and poet |
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| 66 | John Hughes 6/24/1797 - 1/3/1864
Irish-born American religious leader; first Roman Catholic archbishop of New York |
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| 73 | Henry Ward Beecher 6/24/1813 - 3/8/1887
American Congregational minister |
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| 63 | Gustavus Swift 6/24/1839 - 3/29/1903
American business leader; founded Swift & Co. |
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| 81 | Victor Francis Hess 6/24/1883 - 12/17/1964
Austrian-born Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1936) |
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| 81 | Irving Kaufman 6/24/1910 - 2/1/1992
American judge; presided over the Rosenberg case |
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| 75 | Norman Cousins 6/24/1915 - 11/30/1990
American essayist and editor of The Saturday Review |
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| 69 | John Ciardi 6/24/1916 - 3/30/1986
American poet, critic and translator |
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