viernes, 24 de junio de 2011

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ON THIS DAY

On This Day: June 24

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

1314The forces of Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English in the Battle of Bannockburn.
1497The 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.
1509Henry VIII was crowned king of England.
1793The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
1908Former President Grover Cleveland died in Princeton, N.J., at age 71.
1940France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II.
1974The Beach Boys' greatest hits album "Endless Summer" was released.
1998AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable television giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
2004Federal investigators questioned President George W. Bush for more than an hour in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative's name.
2006Patsy Ramsey, who was thrust into the national spotlight by the unsolved slaying of her daughter JonBenet, died at age 49.
2009After going AWOL for seven days, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit his mistress.
2010John 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.)

Current Birthdays

Jeff Beck, Rock musician
Rock musician Jeff Beck turns 67 years old today.
AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
Minka Kelly, Actress (“Friday Night Lights”)
Actress Minka Kelly ("Friday Night Lights") turns 31 years old today.
AP Photo/Dan Steinberg
1919Al Molinaro, Actor ("Happy Days"), turns 92
1923Jack Carter, Comedian, turns 88
1942Michele Lee, Actress ("Knot's Landing"), turns 69
1943Georg Stanford Brown, Actor, director ("The Rookies"), turns 68
1944Arthur Brown, Rock singer, turns 67
1945George Pataki, Former governor of New York, turns 66
1947Mick Fleetwood, Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac), turns 64
1960Juli Inkster, Golfer, turns 51
1961Curt Smith, Rock singer, musician (Tears for Fears), turns 50
1967Sherry Stringfield, Actress ("ER"), turns 44
1979Mindy Kaling, Actress, producer ("The Office"), turns 32
1986Solange Knowles, R&B singer, turns 25

Historic Birthdays

86Theodore Beza 6/24/1519 - 10/13/1605
French author, translator, educator and theologian
56Robert Dudley Leicester 6/24/1532 - 9/4/1588
English favorite of Queen Elizabeth I
49Saint John of the Cross 6/24/1542 - 12/14/1591
Spanish mystic and poet
66John Hughes 6/24/1797 - 1/3/1864
Irish-born American religious leader; first Roman Catholic archbishop of New York
73Henry Ward Beecher 6/24/1813 - 3/8/1887
American Congregational minister
63Gustavus Swift 6/24/1839 - 3/29/1903
American business leader; founded Swift & Co.
81Victor Francis Hess 6/24/1883 - 12/17/1964
Austrian-born Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1936)
81Irving Kaufman 6/24/1910 - 2/1/1992
American judge; presided over the Rosenberg case
75Norman Cousins 6/24/1915 - 11/30/1990
American essayist and editor of The Saturday Review
69John Ciardi 6/24/1916 - 3/30/1986
American poet, critic and translator

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