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On This Day: June 24

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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.

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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.

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On This Date

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

Current Birthdays

Rock musician Jeff Beck turns 67 years old today.

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Actress Minka Kelly ("Friday Night Lights") turns 31 years old today.

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

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