On this day in History – Jun 25 Junho 24, 2007

• 0524 – Battle of Vézeronce, Franks defeat Burgundians.
• 0635 – Emperor Gaozu dies (b. 0566). First emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty.
• 0841 – Battle of Fontenay
• 1134 – King Niels of Denmark dies.
• 1218 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester dies (b. 1160). French crusader.
• 1328 – William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury was born (d. 1397). English military leader.
• 1483 – Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers dies. English writer.
• 1522 – Franchinus Gaffurius dies (b. 1451). Italian composer.
• 1530 – The Augsburg Confession is presented at the Diet of Augsburg to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
• 1533 – Mary Tudor dies (b. 1496). Queen consort of Louis XII of France.
• 1535 – Sebastián Belalcázar funda Guayaquil, a segunda cidade mais importante de Equador atualmente.
• 1560 – Wilhelm Fabry was born (d. 1634). German surgeon.
• 1579 – Hatano Hideharu dies (b. 1541) Japanese warlord and samurai.
• 1593 – Michele Mercati dies (b. 1541). Italian physician and gardener.
• 1612 – John Albert Vasa was born (d. 1634). Polish bishop.
• 1634 – John Marston dies (b. 1576). English playwright.
• 1638 – Juan Pérez de Montalbán dies (b. 1602). Spanish writer.
• 1665 – Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria dies (b. 1630). Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
• 1669 – François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort dies (b. 1616). French soldier.
• 1671 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli dies (b. 1598). Italian astronomer.
• 1673 – Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d’Artagnan dies (b. 1611). Captain of the Musketeers under Louis XIV of France
• 1678 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy.
• 1686 – Simon Ushakov dies (b. 1626). Russian painter.
• 1715 – Joseph-François Foulon was born (d. 1789). French politician.
• 1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann dies. German composer.
• 1788 – Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States.
• 1792 – Thomas Peters dies (b. 1738). Early Sierra Leonean founder.
• 1798 – Thomas Sandby dies (b. 1721). English architect.
• 1814 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée was born (d. 1896). French geologist.
• 1822 – E.T.A. Hoffmann dies (b. 1776). German writer, composer and painter.
• 1838 – François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo dies (b. 1774). French general.
• 1852 – Antoni Gaudi was born (d. 1926). Spanish architect.
• 1858 – Georges Courteline was born (d. 1929). French dramatist.
• 1860 – Gustave Charpentier was born (d. 1956). French composer.
• 1861 – Abd-ul-Mejid dies (b. 1823). Ottoman Sultan
• 1863 – Emile Francqui was born (d. 1935). Belgian soldier.
• 1864 – Walther Nernst was born (d. 1941). German physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry
• 1865 – Robert Henri was born (d. 1929). American painter.
• 1866 – Alexander von Nordmann dies (b. 1803). Finnish zoologist.
• 1868 – Carlo Matteucci dies (b. 1811). Italian physicist.
• 1875 – Antoine-Louis Barye dies (b. 1796). French sculptor of gooches.
• 1876 – Battle of the Little Big Horn and the death of Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
• 1876 – George Armstrong Custer dies (b. 1839). U.S. Army officer.
• 1884 – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler was born (d. 1979). German art promoter.
• 1884 – Hans Rott dies (b. 1858). Austrian composer.
• 1885 – Guilherme Paraense was born. Brazilian athlete first Brazilian Olympic gold medalist.
• 1886 – Henry H. Arnold was born (d. 1950). American Army Air Force commander.
• 1887 – Um comboio descarrila entre o caminho Bilbao-Zaragoza. Morrem 40 pessoas e inúmeras ficam feridas.
• 1887 – George Abbott was born (d. 1995). Playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, actor
• 1894 – Hermann Oberth was born (d. 1989). German physicist.
• 1899 – Rodolfo Alves de Faria dies (b. 23 Mar 1871 in Maceió, Alagoas). Brazilian poet and journalist.
• 1900 – Louis Mountbatten was born (d. 1979). 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India
• 1902 – Onestaldo de Pennafort was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 1987). Brazilian poet and journalist.
• 1903 – George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair) was born (d. 1950). British writer.
• 1903 – Anne Revere was born (d. 1990). American actress.
• 1905 – Cullinan Diamond, the largest rough gem-quality diamond known, is discovered by Frederick Wells.
• 1906 – Pedro Montt wins the presidential elections in Chile.
• 1907 – J. Hans D. Jensen was born (d. 1973). German physicist, Nobel laureate.
• 1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine was born (d. 2000). American philosopher.
• 1909 – Eva Nil (Eva Comello) was born in Cairo. Actress.
• 1911 – William Howard Stein was born. American biochemist.
• 1912 – William T. Cahill was born. Governor of New Jersey
• 1913 – Cyril Fletcher was born (d. 2005). British comedia.
• 1915 – Peter Lind Hayes was born (d. 1998). Actor.
• 1916 – Thomas Eakins dies (b. 1844). American artist .
• 1918 – Jake Beckley dies (b. 1867). Baseball player.
• 1920 – Ruy Guilherme Paranatinga Barata was born (d. 1990). Brazilian poet and composer.
• 1921 – Celia Franca was born. Canadian ballet dancer
• 1923 – Nicholas Mosley was born. British writer
• 1924 – Sidney Lumet was born. American film director
• 1925 – June Lockhart was born. American actress
• 1925 – John Briley was born. American novelist.
• 1925 – Golpe Militar na Grécia encabeçado pelo general Pangalos.
• 1926 – Ingeborg Bachmann was born (d. 1973). Austrian writer.
• 1927 – Em Portugal, foi fundada a Associação de Cegos Luis Braille.
• 1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov was born. Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1928 – Peyo was born (d. 1992). Belgian illustrator.
• 1928 – Bill Russo was born (d. 2003). American jazz composer.
• 1929 – Eric Carle was born. American author
• 1930 – Mary Beth Peil was born. American opera singer and actress
• 1932 – Peter Blake was born. British artist
• 1933 – James Meredith was born. American civil rights activist
• 1933 – Álvaro Siza Vieira was born. Portuguese architect.
• 1935 – Eddie Floyd was born. American singer
• 1936 – Jusuf Habibie was born. President of Indonesia
• 1937 – Colin Clive dies (b. 1900). British actor.
• 1937 – José Martins Fontes dies (b. 23 Jun 1884). Brazilian poet. (Ler aqui poema de Martins Fontes).
• 1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is elected the first President of Ireland.
• 1939 – Harold Melvin was born (d. 1997). American musician (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes).
• 1939 – Allen Fox was born. American tennis player
• 1940 – France formally surrenders to Nazi Germany.
• 1940 – A.J. Quinnell was born (d. 2005). British writer.
• 1941 – Denys Arcand was born. Canadian film director
• 1942 – Michel Tremblay was born. Canadian playwright
• 1944 – The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries begins.
• 1944 – Robert Charlebois was born. Canadian singer
• 1944 – Lucha Reyes dies (b. 1906). Mexican singer.
• 1945 – Seán T. O’Kelly is elected the second President of Ireland.
• 1945 – Carly Simon was born. American singer
• 1946 – Roméo Dallaire was born. Canadian senator
• 1946 – Ian McDonald was born. English musician (King Crimson and Foreigner)
• 1947 – The Diary of Anne Frank is published.
• 1947 – Jimmie Walker was born. American TV actor (best known for his role on Good Times)
• 1948 – The Berlin Airlift begins.
• 1948 – William C. Lee dies (b. 1895). U.S. general.
• 1948 – Bento de Jesus Caraça dies. Portuguese mathematician and professor / Morre o professor, escritor e político português Bento de Jesus Caraça, fundador da Biblioteca Cosmos.
• 1949 – Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny and Giovanni Jones.
• 1949 – Buck Freeman dies (b. 1871). Baseball player.
• 1950 – The beginning of the Korean War, with the invasion of the South by the North.
• 1952 – Miguel Sousa Tavares was born. Portuguese journalist and writer.
• 1952 – Tim Finn was born. New Zealand singer and songwriter.
• 1954 – David Paich was born. Composer (Toto)
• 1954 – Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1955 – Terry Chimes was born. Musician
• 1956 – Boris Trajkovski was born (d. 2004). President of the Republic of Macedonia
• 1959 – Eamon de Valera is elected the third President of Ireland.
• 1959 – Jari Puikkonen was born. Finnish ski jumper, Winter Olympics medalist
• 1959 – Charles Starkweather dies (b. 1938). American spree killer.
• 1960 – Dario de Judicibus was born. Italian writer
• 1960 – Craig Johnston was born. Australian footballer
• 1960 – Tommy Corcoran dies (b. 1869). Baseball player
• 1961 – Ricky Gervais was born. English comedian.
• 1962 – Cláudio Besserman Vianna « o Bussunda» was born (d. 2006). Brazilian humourist
• 1963 – Doug Gilmour was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963 – George Michael was born. British singer
• 1963 – Yann Martel was born. Canadian author
• 1964 – Johnny Herbert was born. British race car driver
• 1966 – Dikembe Mutombo was born. Congolese basketball player
• 1967 – First global satellite television programme – “Our World”
• 1969 – Matt Gallant was born. American television host
• 1969 – Zim Zum was born. American musician (former Marilyn Manson guitarist)
• 1970 – Erki Nool was born. Estonian decathlete
• 1970 – Lucy Benjamin was born. British actress.
• 1970 – Henrique Galvão dies. Portuguese politician.
• 1971 – Angela Kinsey was born. American actress
• 1971 – Santiago de Tezanos was born. Uruguayan architect
• 1971 – Neil Lennon was born. Northern Irish footballer
• 1971 – Michael Tucker was born. American baseball player.
• 1971 – John Boyd Orr dies (b. 1880). Scottish physician, Nobel laureate.
• 1972 – Carlos Delgado was born. Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1972 – Mike Kroeger was born. American bassplayer (Nickelback)
• 1973 – Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.
• 1973 – Jamie Redknapp was born. English footballer
• 1974 – Jim LaMarca was born. American bassplayer (Chimaira)
• 1974 – Karisma Kapoor was born. Indian actress
• 1974 – Cornelius Lanczos dies (b. 1893). Hungarian mathematician.
• 1975 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares Emergency in India, suspending civil liberties and elections.
• 1975 – Mozambique achieved independence.
• 1975 – Linda Cardellini was born. American actress.
• 1975 – Albert Costa was born. Spanish tennis player.
• 1975 – Natasha Klauss was born. Colombian actress.
• 1975 – Vladimir Kramnik was born. Russian chess player.
• 1976 – Missouri Governor Christopher S. Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused the Latter Day Saints.
• 1976 – José Cancela was born. Uruguayan footballer
• 1976 – Dubravka Vukotić was born. Montenegrin actress.
• 1976 – Johnny Mercer dies (b. 1909). American songwriter
• 1977 – Fernanda Lima was born. Brazilian actress and TV presenter.
• 1978 – Layla El was born. 2006 WWE Diva Search Winner
• 1979 – Hirooki Goto was born. Japanese professional wrestler
• 1979 – Katie Doyle was born. American actress and reality television star
• 1979 – Brandi Burkhardt was born. American vocalist, theater actress, and beauty queen.
• 1979 – Philippe Halsman dies (b. 1906). American photographer.
• 1980 – Maja Latinovic was born. Serbian model.
• 1980 – Nozomi Takeuchi was born. Japanese actress.
• 1981 – Microsoft Inc. is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
• 1981 – Sheridan Smith was born. British actress
• 1981 – Simon Ammann was born. Swiss ski jumper
• 1982 – Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.
• 1982 – Mikhail Youzhny was born. Russian tennis player
• 1982 – Rain was born. Korean singer (Rain, Jeong Ji-Hoon)
• 1983 – India, led by Kapil Dev, win the Cricket World Cup. They beat West Indies by 43 runs in the final at Lord’s, London.
• 1983 – Nargis Farahmand was born. Afghan poet.
• 1983 – Todd Cooper was born. British swimmer
• 1983 – Alberto Ginastera dies (b. 1916). Argentine composer.
• 1984 – Michel Foucault dies (b. 1926). French philosopher.
• 1985 – Hanna Perez Moza was born. Mexican singer (Ha*Ash) .
• 1985 – Em Portugal, Mário Soares demitiu-se do cargo de Primeiro-Ministro
• 1985 – Morris Mason dies (b. 1954). American murderer.
• 1986 – Aya Matsuura was born. Japanese singer.
• 1988 – Amanda Dowler was born (d. 2002). British murder victim.
• 1988 – Hillel Slovak dies (b. 1962). Israeli-born musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers
• 1990 – Ronald Gene Simmons dies. American mass murderer
• 1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
• 1992 – Jerome Brown dies (b. 1965). American football player.
• 1993 – David Letterman airs his last episode of Late Night with David Letterman.
• 1993 – Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1994 – Michel Foucault dies. Frenc pholosopher.
• 1995 – Warren Burger dies. United States Supreme Court justice
• 1995 – A Frente Nacional para o Câmbio e para a Democracia triunfa nas eleições presidenciais no Haiti.
• 1995 – Warren Burger dies (b. 1907). Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• 1995 – William Layton dies. American dramatist.
• 1995 – Ernest Walton dies (b. 1903). Irish physicist who won The Nobel Prize in 1951.
• 1996 – Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.
• 1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collided with the Russian Space station, Mir.
• 1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau dies (b. 1910). French explorer, scientist, and inventor.
• 1998 – Microsoft Windows 98 is released.
• 1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
• 1999 – The final episode of thirty-five year old daytime drama Another World airs on NBC.
• 2001 – Milton Santos dies (b. 1926). Brazilian geographer.
• 2002 – Jean Corbeil dies (b. 1934). Canadian politician.
• 2003 – Lester Maddox dies. American politician, Governor of Georgia
• 2005 – John Fiedler dies (b. 1925). American actor, voice of Piglet in many Winnie the Pooh productions.
• 2006 – Jaap Penraat dies (b. 1918). Dutch architect.
• 2007 – Opening in Lisbon of Joe Berardo Modern and Contemporanean Art Museum
• Antichristmas celebrated by some Satanists (see also Midsummer)
• National Catfish Day
• Statehood Day in Slovenia and Croatia
• Spain – Fiesta of Santa Orosia
• Mozambique – Independence Day

On this day in History – Jun 25

• 0524 – Battle of Vézeronce, Franks defeat Burgundians.
• 0635 – Emperor Gaozu dies (b. 0566). First emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty.
• 0841 – Battle of Fontenay
• 1134 – King Niels of Denmark dies.
• 1218 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester dies (b. 1160). French crusader.
• 1328 – William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury was born (d. 1397). English military leader.
• 1483 – Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers dies. English writer.
• 1522 – Franchinus Gaffurius dies (b. 1451). Italian composer.
• 1530 – The Augsburg Confession is presented at the Diet of Augsburg to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
• 1533 – Mary Tudor dies (b. 1496). Queen consort of Louis XII of France.
• 1535 – Sebastián Belalcázar funda Guayaquil, a segunda cidade mais importante de Equador atualmente.
• 1560 – Wilhelm Fabry was born (d. 1634). German surgeon.
• 1579 – Hatano Hideharu dies (b. 1541) Japanese warlord and samurai.
• 1593 – Michele Mercati dies (b. 1541). Italian physician and gardener.
• 1612 – John Albert Vasa was born (d. 1634). Polish bishop.
• 1634 – John Marston dies (b. 1576). English playwright.
• 1638 – Juan Pérez de Montalbán dies (b. 1602). Spanish writer.
• 1665 – Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria dies (b. 1630). Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
• 1669 – François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort dies (b. 1616). French soldier.
• 1671 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli dies (b. 1598). Italian astronomer.
• 1673 – Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d’Artagnan dies (b. 1611). Captain of the Musketeers under Louis XIV of France
• 1678 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy.
• 1686 – Simon Ushakov dies (b. 1626). Russian painter.
• 1715 – Joseph-François Foulon was born (d. 1789). French politician.
• 1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann dies. German composer.
• 1788 – Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States.
• 1792 – Thomas Peters dies (b. 1738). Early Sierra Leonean founder.
• 1798 – Thomas Sandby dies (b. 1721). English architect.
• 1814 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée was born (d. 1896). French geologist.
• 1822 – E.T.A. Hoffmann dies (b. 1776). German writer, composer and painter.
• 1838 – François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo dies (b. 1774). French general.
• 1852 – Antoni Gaudi was born (d. 1926). Spanish architect.
• 1858 – Georges Courteline was born (d. 1929). French dramatist.
• 1860 – Gustave Charpentier was born (d. 1956). French composer.
• 1861 – Abd-ul-Mejid dies (b. 1823). Ottoman Sultan
• 1863 – Emile Francqui was born (d. 1935). Belgian soldier.
• 1864 – Walther Nernst was born (d. 1941). German physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry
• 1865 – Robert Henri was born (d. 1929). American painter.
• 1866 – Alexander von Nordmann dies (b. 1803). Finnish zoologist.
• 1868 – Carlo Matteucci dies (b. 1811). Italian physicist.
• 1875 – Antoine-Louis Barye dies (b. 1796). French sculptor of gooches.
• 1876 – Battle of the Little Big Horn and the death of Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
• 1876 – George Armstrong Custer dies (b. 1839). U.S. Army officer.
• 1884 – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler was born (d. 1979). German art promoter.
• 1884 – Hans Rott dies (b. 1858). Austrian composer.
• 1885 – Guilherme Paraense was born. Brazilian athlete first Brazilian Olympic gold medalist.
• 1886 – Henry H. Arnold was born (d. 1950). American Army Air Force commander.
• 1887 – Um comboio descarrila entre o caminho Bilbao-Zaragoza. Morrem 40 pessoas e inúmeras ficam feridas.
• 1887 – George Abbott was born (d. 1995). Playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, actor
• 1894 – Hermann Oberth was born (d. 1989). German physicist.
• 1899 – Rodolfo Alves de Faria dies (b. 23 Mar 1871 in Maceió, Alagoas). Brazilian poet and journalist.
• 1900 – Louis Mountbatten was born (d. 1979). 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India
• 1902 – Onestaldo de Pennafort was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 1987). Brazilian poet and journalist.
• 1903 – George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair) was born (d. 1950). British writer.
• 1903 – Anne Revere was born (d. 1990). American actress.
• 1905 – Cullinan Diamond, the largest rough gem-quality diamond known, is discovered by Frederick Wells.
• 1906 – Pedro Montt wins the presidential elections in Chile.
• 1907 – J. Hans D. Jensen was born (d. 1973). German physicist, Nobel laureate.
• 1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine was born (d. 2000). American philosopher.
• 1909 – Eva Nil (Eva Comello) was born in Cairo. Actress.
• 1911 – William Howard Stein was born. American biochemist.
• 1912 – William T. Cahill was born. Governor of New Jersey
• 1913 – Cyril Fletcher was born (d. 2005). British comedia.
• 1915 – Peter Lind Hayes was born (d. 1998). Actor.
• 1916 – Thomas Eakins dies (b. 1844). American artist .
• 1918 – Jake Beckley dies (b. 1867). Baseball player.
• 1920 – Ruy Guilherme Paranatinga Barata was born (d. 1990). Brazilian poet and composer.
• 1921 – Celia Franca was born. Canadian ballet dancer
• 1923 – Nicholas Mosley was born. British writer
• 1924 – Sidney Lumet was born. American film director
• 1925 – June Lockhart was born. American actress
• 1925 – John Briley was born. American novelist.
• 1925 – Golpe Militar na Grécia encabeçado pelo general Pangalos.
• 1926 – Ingeborg Bachmann was born (d. 1973). Austrian writer.
• 1927 – Em Portugal, foi fundada a Associação de Cegos Luis Braille.
• 1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov was born. Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1928 – Peyo was born (d. 1992). Belgian illustrator.
• 1928 – Bill Russo was born (d. 2003). American jazz composer.
• 1929 – Eric Carle was born. American author
• 1930 – Mary Beth Peil was born. American opera singer and actress
• 1932 – Peter Blake was born. British artist
• 1933 – James Meredith was born. American civil rights activist
• 1933 – Álvaro Siza Vieira was born. Portuguese architect.
• 1935 – Eddie Floyd was born. American singer
• 1936 – Jusuf Habibie was born. President of Indonesia
• 1937 – Colin Clive dies (b. 1900). British actor.
• 1937 – José Martins Fontes dies (b. 23 Jun 1884). Brazilian poet. (Ler aqui poema de Martins Fontes).
• 1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is elected the first President of Ireland.
• 1939 – Harold Melvin was born (d. 1997). American musician (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes).
• 1939 – Allen Fox was born. American tennis player
• 1940 – France formally surrenders to Nazi Germany.
• 1940 – A.J. Quinnell was born (d. 2005). British writer.
• 1941 – Denys Arcand was born. Canadian film director
• 1942 – Michel Tremblay was born. Canadian playwright
• 1944 – The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries begins.
• 1944 – Robert Charlebois was born. Canadian singer
• 1944 – Lucha Reyes dies (b. 1906). Mexican singer.
• 1945 – Seán T. O’Kelly is elected the second President of Ireland.
• 1945 – Carly Simon was born. American singer
• 1946 – Roméo Dallaire was born. Canadian senator
• 1946 – Ian McDonald was born. English musician (King Crimson and Foreigner)
• 1947 – The Diary of Anne Frank is published.
• 1947 – Jimmie Walker was born. American TV actor (best known for his role on Good Times)
• 1948 – The Berlin Airlift begins.
• 1948 – William C. Lee dies (b. 1895). U.S. general.
• 1948 – Bento de Jesus Caraça dies. Portuguese mathematician and professor / Morre o professor, escritor e político português Bento de Jesus Caraça, fundador da Biblioteca Cosmos.
• 1949 – Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny and Giovanni Jones.
• 1949 – Buck Freeman dies (b. 1871). Baseball player.
• 1950 – The beginning of the Korean War, with the invasion of the South by the North.
• 1952 – Miguel Sousa Tavares was born. Portuguese journalist and writer.
• 1952 – Tim Finn was born. New Zealand singer and songwriter.
• 1954 – David Paich was born. Composer (Toto)
• 1954 – Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1955 – Terry Chimes was born. Musician
• 1956 – Boris Trajkovski was born (d. 2004). President of the Republic of Macedonia
• 1959 – Eamon de Valera is elected the third President of Ireland.
• 1959 – Jari Puikkonen was born. Finnish ski jumper, Winter Olympics medalist
• 1959 – Charles Starkweather dies (b. 1938). American spree killer.
• 1960 – Dario de Judicibus was born. Italian writer
• 1960 – Craig Johnston was born. Australian footballer
• 1960 – Tommy Corcoran dies (b. 1869). Baseball player
• 1961 – Ricky Gervais was born. English comedian.
• 1962 – Cláudio Besserman Vianna « o Bussunda» was born (d. 2006). Brazilian humourist
• 1963 – Doug Gilmour was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963 – George Michael was born. British singer
• 1963 – Yann Martel was born. Canadian author
• 1964 – Johnny Herbert was born. British race car driver
• 1966 – Dikembe Mutombo was born. Congolese basketball player
• 1967 – First global satellite television programme – “Our World”
• 1969 – Matt Gallant was born. American television host
• 1969 – Zim Zum was born. American musician (former Marilyn Manson guitarist)
• 1970 – Erki Nool was born. Estonian decathlete
• 1970 – Lucy Benjamin was born. British actress.
• 1970 – Henrique Galvão dies. Portuguese politician.
• 1971 – Angela Kinsey was born. American actress
• 1971 – Santiago de Tezanos was born. Uruguayan architect
• 1971 – Neil Lennon was born. Northern Irish footballer
• 1971 – Michael Tucker was born. American baseball player.
• 1971 – John Boyd Orr dies (b. 1880). Scottish physician, Nobel laureate.
• 1972 – Carlos Delgado was born. Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1972 – Mike Kroeger was born. American bassplayer (Nickelback)
• 1973 – Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.
• 1973 – Jamie Redknapp was born. English footballer
• 1974 – Jim LaMarca was born. American bassplayer (Chimaira)
• 1974 – Karisma Kapoor was born. Indian actress
• 1974 – Cornelius Lanczos dies (b. 1893). Hungarian mathematician.
• 1975 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares Emergency in India, suspending civil liberties and elections.
• 1975 – Mozambique achieved independence.
• 1975 – Linda Cardellini was born. American actress.
• 1975 – Albert Costa was born. Spanish tennis player.
• 1975 – Natasha Klauss was born. Colombian actress.
• 1975 – Vladimir Kramnik was born. Russian chess player.
• 1976 – Missouri Governor Christopher S. Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused the Latter Day Saints.
• 1976 – José Cancela was born. Uruguayan footballer
• 1976 – Dubravka Vukotić was born. Montenegrin actress.
• 1976 – Johnny Mercer dies (b. 1909). American songwriter
• 1977 – Fernanda Lima was born. Brazilian actress and TV presenter.
• 1978 – Layla El was born. 2006 WWE Diva Search Winner
• 1979 – Hirooki Goto was born. Japanese professional wrestler
• 1979 – Katie Doyle was born. American actress and reality television star
• 1979 – Brandi Burkhardt was born. American vocalist, theater actress, and beauty queen.
• 1979 – Philippe Halsman dies (b. 1906). American photographer.
• 1980 – Maja Latinovic was born. Serbian model.
• 1980 – Nozomi Takeuchi was born. Japanese actress.
• 1981 – Microsoft Inc. is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
• 1981 – Sheridan Smith was born. British actress
• 1981 – Simon Ammann was born. Swiss ski jumper
• 1982 – Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.
• 1982 – Mikhail Youzhny was born. Russian tennis player
• 1982 – Rain was born. Korean singer (Rain, Jeong Ji-Hoon)
• 1983 – India, led by Kapil Dev, win the Cricket World Cup. They beat West Indies by 43 runs in the final at Lord’s, London.
• 1983 – Nargis Farahmand was born. Afghan poet.
• 1983 – Todd Cooper was born. British swimmer
• 1983 – Alberto Ginastera dies (b. 1916). Argentine composer.
• 1984 – Michel Foucault dies (b. 1926). French philosopher.
• 1985 – Hanna Perez Moza was born. Mexican singer (Ha*Ash) .
• 1985 – Em Portugal, Mário Soares demitiu-se do cargo de Primeiro-Ministro
• 1985 – Morris Mason dies (b. 1954). American murderer.
• 1986 – Aya Matsuura was born. Japanese singer.
• 1988 – Amanda Dowler was born (d. 2002). British murder victim.
• 1988 – Hillel Slovak dies (b. 1962). Israeli-born musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers
• 1990 – Ronald Gene Simmons dies. American mass murderer
• 1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
• 1992 – Jerome Brown dies (b. 1965). American football player.
• 1993 – David Letterman airs his last episode of Late Night with David Letterman.
• 1993 – Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1994 – Michel Foucault dies. Frenc pholosopher.
• 1995 – Warren Burger dies. United States Supreme Court justice
• 1995 – A Frente Nacional para o Câmbio e para a Democracia triunfa nas eleições presidenciais no Haiti.
• 1995 – Warren Burger dies (b. 1907). Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• 1995 – William Layton dies. American dramatist.
• 1995 – Ernest Walton dies (b. 1903). Irish physicist who won The Nobel Prize in 1951.
• 1996 – Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.
• 1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collided with the Russian Space station, Mir.
• 1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau dies (b. 1910). French explorer, scientist, and inventor.
• 1998 – Microsoft Windows 98 is released.
• 1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
• 1999 – The final episode of thirty-five year old daytime drama Another World airs on NBC.
• 2001 – Milton Santos dies (b. 1926). Brazilian geographer.
• 2002 – Jean Corbeil dies (b. 1934). Canadian politician.
• 2003 – Lester Maddox dies. American politician, Governor of Georgia
• 2005 – John Fiedler dies (b. 1925). American actor, voice of Piglet in many Winnie the Pooh productions.
• 2006 – Jaap Penraat dies (b. 1918). Dutch architect.
• 2007 – Opening in Lisbon of Joe Berardo Modern and Contemporanean Art Museum
• Antichristmas celebrated by some Satanists (see also Midsummer)
• National Catfish Day
• Statehood Day in Slovenia and Croatia
• Spain – Fiesta of Santa Orosia
• Mozambique – Independence Day

Futsal: Benfica é Campeão

foto: André Lima exibe o troféu

O Benfica venceu hoje o Sporting por 1-0 e sagrou-se Campeão Nacional da época 2006/2007 em futsal, depois de 4-1 e 1-2 nos jogos anteriores.

Ninguém imaginava quando Zé Maria aos 4′ marcou o golo do Benfica, na sequência de um ressalto de bola após livre de Gonçalo Alves, que esse golo decidiria o título.

Na primeira parte o Benfica teve as melhores oportunidades de golo e esteve por cima. Depois de um jogador do Sporting cair no chão os sportinguistas ainda assim marcaram um livre que lhes era favorável mas Pedro Costa recuperou a bola e apareceu isolado. Cristiano, porém, evitou o 2-0.

A segunda parte foi muito diferente. O Sporting teve muito mais iniciativa, o Benfica foi-se fechando no seu meio-campo e teve poucas chances de contra-atacar. Nos últimos minutos a pressão do Sporting foi mesmo asfixiante e o empate não surgiu porque por duas vezes Edinho falhou de baliza aberta e numa terceira a poucos segundos do fim foi Pedro Costa que afastou uma bola que ia para a baliza depois de ter passado Bébé.

Foi um jogo tactico, em que os jogadores tiveram um bom comportamento desportivo e em que o Benfica teve alguma sorte no desfecho final. No fim os adeptos encarnados fizeram a festa.

Futsal: Benfica é Campeão

foto: André Lima exibe o troféu

O Benfica venceu hoje o Sporting por 1-0 e sagrou-se Campeão Nacional da época 2006/2007 em futsal, depois de 4-1 e 1-2 nos jogos anteriores.

Ninguém imaginava quando Zé Maria aos 4′ marcou o golo do Benfica, na sequência de um ressalto de bola após livre de Gonçalo Alves, que esse golo decidiria o título.

Na primeira parte o Benfica teve as melhores oportunidades de golo e esteve por cima. Depois de um jogador do Sporting cair no chão os sportinguistas ainda assim marcaram um livre que lhes era favorável mas Pedro Costa recuperou a bola e apareceu isolado. Cristiano, porém, evitou o 2-0.

A segunda parte foi muito diferente. O Sporting teve muito mais iniciativa, o Benfica foi-se fechando no seu meio-campo e teve poucas chances de contra-atacar. Nos últimos minutos a pressão do Sporting foi mesmo asfixiante e o empate não surgiu porque por duas vezes Edinho falhou de baliza aberta e numa terceira a poucos segundos do fim foi Pedro Costa que afastou uma bola que ia para a baliza depois de ter passado Bébé.

Foi um jogo tactico, em que os jogadores tiveram um bom comportamento desportivo e em que o Benfica teve alguma sorte no desfecho final. No fim os adeptos encarnados fizeram a festa.

Futsal: Benfica é Campeão

foto: André Lima exibe o troféu

O Benfica venceu hoje o Sporting por 1-0 e sagrou-se Campeão Nacional da época 2006/2007 em futsal, depois de 4-1 e 1-2 nos jogos anteriores.

Ninguém imaginava quando Zé Maria aos 4′ marcou o golo do Benfica, na sequência de um ressalto de bola após livre de Gonçalo Alves, que esse golo decidiria o título.

Na primeira parte o Benfica teve as melhores oportunidades de golo e esteve por cima. Depois de um jogador do Sporting cair no chão os sportinguistas ainda assim marcaram um livre que lhes era favorável mas Pedro Costa recuperou a bola e apareceu isolado. Cristiano, porém, evitou o 2-0.

A segunda parte foi muito diferente. O Sporting teve muito mais iniciativa, o Benfica foi-se fechando no seu meio-campo e teve poucas chances de contra-atacar. Nos últimos minutos a pressão do Sporting foi mesmo asfixiante e o empate não surgiu porque por duas vezes Edinho falhou de baliza aberta e numa terceira a poucos segundos do fim foi Pedro Costa que afastou uma bola que ia para a baliza depois de ter passado Bébé.

Foi um jogo tactico, em que os jogadores tiveram um bom comportamento desportivo e em que o Benfica teve alguma sorte no desfecho final. No fim os adeptos encarnados fizeram a festa.

On this day in History – Jun 24

• 0972 – Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces.
• 1128 – Battle of São Mamede near Guimarães. Portuguese forces led by Afonso I (D. Afonso Henriiques) defeat his mother D.Teresa and D.Fernão Peres de Trava. After this battle, the future king calls himself “Prince of Portugal”, the first step towards “official independence” in 1143.
• 1158 – Portugueses tomam Alcácer do Sal dos mouros.
• 1244 – Henry I of Hesse was born (d. 1308).
• 1288 – Casamento do rei português D. Dinis com D. Isabel, a Rainha Santa.
• 1314 – End of the Battle of Bannockburn. Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce defeat Edward II of England. Scotland regains its independence.
• 1340 – Hundred Years’ War: Battle of Sluys The French fleet was almost totally destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by Edward III of England.
• 1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John’s Dance causes people in the streets of Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
• 1386 – Giovanni da Capistrano was born (d. 1456). Italian saint.
• 1398 – Hongwu Emperor of China dies (b. 1328). Founder of the Ming Dynasty.
• 1439 – Frederick IV of Austria dies. Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
• 1441 – Eton College founded.
• 1485 – Johannes Bugenhagen was born (d. 1558). German reformer.
• 1497 – John Cabot lands on North America in Newfoundland; first European discovery of the region since the Vikings.
• 1497 – Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank executed at Tyburn, London
• 1509 – Henry VIII crowned King of England.
• 1519 – Theodore Beza was born (d. 1605). French theologian.
• 1519 – Lucrezia Borgia dies (b. 1480). Duchess of Ferrara.
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
• 1535 – The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
• 1542 – St. John of the Cross was born (d. 1591). Spanish Carmelite friar and poet.
• 1546 – Robert Parsons was born (d. 1610). English Jesuit priest.
• 1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
• 1604 – Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford dies. Leading candidate for true authorship of the Shakespeare canon.
• 1604 – Edward de Vere dies. 17th Earl of Oxford, hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England
• 1662 – Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macao.
• 1663 – Jean Baptiste Massillon was born (d. 1742). French churchman
• 1664 – The colony of New Jersey is founded.
• 1675 – King Philip’s War begins. In colonial New England, King Philip’s War begins when a band of Wampanoag warriors raid the border settlement of Swansee, Massachusetts, and massacre the English colonists there.
• 1687 – Johann Albrecht Bengel was born (d. 1757). German scholar.
• 1692 – Kingston, Jamaica is founded.
• 1694 – Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui was born (d. 1748). Swiss publicist.
• 1704 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens was born (d. 1771). French writer.
• 1717 – The Grand Lodge of England, the first Freemasonic Grand Lodge (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.
• 1757 – D. José da Câmara dies (4th Count of Ribeira Grande – Portugal)
• 1774 – François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo was born (d. 1838). French general.
• 1777 – John Ross was born (d. 1856). Naval officer and explorer.
• 1783 – Johann Heinrich von Thünen was born (d. 22 Sep 1850). German agriculturalist best known for his work on the relationship of the costs of commodity transportation to the location of production
• 1788 – Thomas Blanchard was born (d.16 Apr 1864). American inventor who made major ontributions to the development of machine tools. He invented a number of machines before he created the famous lathe that bears his name.
• 1793 – First republican constitution in France adopted.
• 1794 – Bowdoin College is founded.
• 1795 – Ernst Heinrich Weber was born (d. 26 Jan 1878). German anatomist and physiologist.
• 1803 – George James Webb was born (d. 1887). Composer.
• 1804 – Willard Richards was born (d. 1854). American religious leader.
• 1804 – Stephan Endlicher was born (d. 28 Mar 1849). Austrian botanist who formulated a major system of plant classification.
• 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon’s invasion of Russia begins.
• 1813 – Battle of Beaver Dams : A British, and Indian joint force defeat the U.S Army.
• 1813 – Henry Ward Beecher was born (d. 1887). American clergyman and reformer.
• 1819 – Nasce em Londres a futura rainha Vitória.
• 1821 – Battle of Carabobo : Venezuela gains total independence from Spain.
• 1826 – George Goyder was born. (d. 1898). Surveyor-general of South Australia.
• 1833 – Desembarque das tropas constitucionais, comandadas pelo duque da Terceira no Algarve, na praia da Alagoa. Atravessando o Alentejo, chegarão a Lisboa em 24 de Julho.
• 1835 – Johannes Wislicenus was born (d. 5 Dec 1902). German chemist whose pioneering work led to the recognition of the importance of the spatial arrangement of atoms within a molecule
• 1836 – Karl Heinrich Ferdinand Rosenbusch was born (d. 20 Jan 1914). German geologist who laid the foundations of the science of microscopic petrography (the study of rocks in thin section, based on the optical properties of constituent mineral grains).
• 1839 – Gustavus Swift was born (d. 29 Mar 1903). American manufacturer and inventor of the first refrigerated railroad cars. These improved his handling of the supply of beef from western states to the Chicago meat company of which he was a partner.
• 1842 – Ambrose Bierce was born (d. 1914). American author.
• 1850 – Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum was born (d. 1916). Original Order of Merit member.
• 1852 – Friedrich August Johannes Löffler was born (d. 9 Abr 1915). German bacteriologist who discovered the organism that causes diphtheria, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, (1884) which had first been observed by the German physiologist Theodor Klebs in the throats of diphtheria patients (the organism became known as the Klebs-Löffler bacillus).
• 1856 – Henry Chapman Mercer was (d. 9 Mar 1930). American archaeologist, collector, and tilemaker.
• 1859 – Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns). Sardinia and France defeat Austria in northern Italy.
• 1860 – Mercedes of Orleans was born (d. 1878). Queen of Spain.
• 1861 – Tennessee becomes the 11th and last state to secede from the US.
• 1875 – Henri Labrouste dies. Franch architect.
• 1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
• 1880 – Oswald Veblen was born (d. 10 Aug 1960). American mathematician who made important contributions to differential geometry and early topology.
• 1882 – Carl Diem was born (d. 1962). German Olympic official.
• 1882 – Athanase David was born (d. 1953). French Canadian politician and businessman.
• 1883 – Victor Franz Hess was born (d. 17 Dec 1964). Austrian-born physicist who was a joint recipient (with Carl D. Anderson of the United States) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of cosmic rays, high-energy radiation originating in outer space.
• 1886 – George Shiels was born (d. 1949). Northern Irish dramatist.
• 1888 – Gerrit Rietveld was born (d. 1964). Dutch architect.
• 1894 – The IOC decides to hold the Olympic Games every four years.
• 1894 – Marie Francois Sadi Carnot assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
• 1895 – Jack Dempsey was born im Manassa, CO (d. 1983). American boxer who won the heavyweight championship six times.
• 1897 – Daniel K. Ludwig was born (d. 1992). American shipping magnate.
• 1900 – Wilhelm Cauer was born (d. 1945). German mathematician.
• 1901 – Harry Partch was born (d. 1974). American composer.
• 1901 – First exhibition of Pablo Picasso‘s work opens. The first major exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s artwork opens at a gallery on Paris’ rue Lafitte, a street known for its prestigious art galleries.
• 1902 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
• 1904 – Phil Harris was born (d. 1995). American singer, songwriter and comedian.
• 1906 – Pierre Fournier was born (d. 1986). French cellist.
• 1907 – Arseny Tarkovsky was born (d. 1989). Russian poet.
• 1908 – Alfons Rebane was born (d. 1976). Estonian military officer.
• 1908 – Hugo Distler was born (d. 1942). German composer.
• 1908 – Guru Gopinath was born (d. 1987). Indian classical dancer.
• 1908 – Grover Cleveland dies. President of the United States.
• 1909 – Sarah Orne Jewett dies (b. 1849). American writer.
• 1909 – William Penney (Baron Penney of East Hendred) was born. British nuclear physicist who led Britain’s development of the atomic bomb.
• 1910 – Japan invades Korea.
• 1911 – Juan Manuel Fangio was born (d. 1995). Argentine Formula one 5 time World Champion
• 1911 – Ernesto Sábato was born. Argentinian writer
• 1912 – Brian Johnston was born (d. 1994). British cricket commentator.
• 1913 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
• 1913 – Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1914 – Pearl Witherington was born. British WW II secret agent
• 1914 – Robert Aickman was born (d. 1981). Author.
• 1915 – Fred Hoyle was born (d. 20 Aug 2001). English mathematician and astronomer, best known as the foremost proponent and defender of the steady-state theory of the universe. “A Different Approach to Cosmology”
• 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes first film star to get million dollar contract.
• 1916 – Battle of the Somme begins with a week long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
• 1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
• 1918 – The giant cannon Big Bertha begins bombardments on Paris
• 1922 – Walther Rathenau dies assassinated (b. 1867). German Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• 1922 – Tata Giacobetti was born. Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
• 1924 – Kurt Furgler was born. Member of the Swiss Federal Council
• 1926 – Os jornais portugueses passaram a estar sujeitos à apreciação da Comissão de Censura
• 1927 – Martin Lewis Perl was born. American physicist who received the 1995 Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering a subatomic particle that he named the tau, a massive lepton with a negative charge.
• 1928 – With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person crews on trolley operations in Canada
• 1928 – Wolfgang Altenburg was born. German general
• 1930 – Claude Chabrol was born. French film director.
• 1931 – Billy Casper was born. American golfer.
• 1932 – A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand).
• 1935 – Carlos Gardel dies (airplane crash) (b. 1890). Argentine singer / Morre, na cidade de Medellin – Colombia, no auge da carreira e da fama, Carlos Gardel (Charles Romuald Gardés), grande músico e cantor do tango.
• 1935 – Pete Hamill was born. American journalist.
• 1938 – Lawrence Block was born. Acclaimed contemporary American crime writer
• 1940 – France and Italy sign an armistice.
• 1941 – Government of briefly independent Lithuania conducts it’s first meeting under prime minister Juozas Ambrazevičius.
• 1941 – Julia Kristeva was born. Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst, and novelist
• 1942 – Mick Fleetwood was born. Musician (Fleetwood Mac)
• 1942 – Michele Lee was born. American actress
• 1944 – Jeff Beck was born. English musician (Yardbirds)
• 1944 – Chris Wood was born (d. 1983). Musician.
• 1944 – Arthur Brown was born (d. 1983). English musician
• 1944 – John “Charlie” Whitney was born. English guitarist (Family, Streetwalkers, Axis Point)
• 1945 – Colin Blunstone was born. Musician (The Zombies)
• 1945 – George Pataki was born. Governor of New York
• 1945 – Moscow Victory Parade
• 1945 – The U.S.S.R. capture the Free Republic of Schwarzenberg.
• 1946 – Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1946 – Ellison Onizuka was born (d. 1986). Astronaut.
• 1947 – First known sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold, flying over Washington, notices nine luminous disks in the form of saucers.
• 1947 – Emil Seidel dies. American politician and Mayor of Milwaukee
• 1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible.
• 1949 – The first Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
• 1949 – Betty Jackson was born. British fashion designer.
• 1950 – Início do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol no Brasil.
• 1953 – Garry Shider was born. Musician (P Funk)
• 1953 – George Herbert Walker dies. Grandfather of President George H. W. Bush.
• 1955 – Betty Lago was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actress.
• 1956 – Joe Penny was born. Actor
• 1957 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obsecnity is not protected by the First Amendment.
• 1960 – Trisha Meili was born. Author
• 1963 – Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the UK.
• 1967 – Richard Kruspe-Bernstein was born. Guitarist (Rammstein)
• 1969 – Sissel Kyrkjebø was born. Norwegian singer.
• 1970 – Glenn Medeiros was born. Hawaiian singer and songwriter.
• 1974 – The UPC label is used for the first time to ring up purchases at a supermarket.
• 1975 – An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.
• 1978 – Erno “Emppu” Vuorinen was born. Guitarist (Nightwish).
• 1981 – For what would be the world’s longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years, the Humber Bridge, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, opens.
• 1981 – Terry Fox dies. Marathon runner.
• 1982 – British Airways Flight 9, sometimes referred to as the Jakarta incident, flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
• 1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7 Mission Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth.
• 1983 – Yasir Arafat banned from Damascus.
• 1983 – Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth.
• 1986 – Solange Knowles was born. Actress and singer.
• 1987 – Jackie Gleason dies. Actor, musician.
• 1991 – Bridge of S. João is inaugurated in Porto. The author of project was Edgar Cardoso Cardoso.
• 1993 – Archie Williams dies. American athlete.
• 1993 – Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
• 1994 – A United States Air Force B-52 aircraft crashes at Fairchild Air Force Base, killing all four members of its crew.
• 1996 – Michael Johnson breaks the world record in the 200 metres with a time of 19.66 seconds
• 1999 – The guitar with which Eric Clapton recorded Layla is sold at auction for the astounding price of $497,500.
• 2000 – Vera Atkins dies. Special Operations Executive intelligence officer
• 2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
• 2002 – Pierre Werner dies. Prime Minister of Luxembourg
• 2003 – Maynard Jackson dies. Mayor of Atlanta
• 2003 – Leon Uris dies. Author
• 2003 – Richard Pough dies (b. 19 Apr 1904). American ecologist who was founding president of the Nature Conservancy (1950), one of the nation’s largest environmental organizations.
• 2004 – Habib Dodo, the general secretary of the Communist Youth of Côte d’Ivoire is assassinated by pro-government forces.
• 2004 – In New York, Capital punishment was declared unconstitutional.
• 2004 – Ifigeneia Giannopoulou dies (b. 1957). Greek songwriter.
• 2005 – Segunda volta das eleições presidenciais no Irão.
• Roman Catholic Church – Feast of Saint John the Baptist, patron of farriers
• Original Midsummer’s Eve in Finland and Sweden, although the official holiday is now moved to the nearest Friday.
• One of the four Irish Quarter days in the Irish Calendar.
• Discovery Day in Newfoundland and Labrador (celebrating the 1497 discovery by John Cabot)
• Fête nationale du Québec, also called St-Jean-Baptiste Day
• Day of Indian in Peru
• Bannockburn Day in Scotland (see 1314 above)
• Bahá’í Faith – Feast of Rahmat (Mercy) – First day of the sixth month of the Bahá’í Calendar
• Quarter days in England

On this day in History – Jun 24

• 0972 – Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces.
• 1128 – Battle of São Mamede near Guimarães. Portuguese forces led by Afonso I (D. Afonso Henriiques) defeat his mother D.Teresa and D.Fernão Peres de Trava. After this battle, the future king calls himself “Prince of Portugal”, the first step towards “official independence” in 1143.
• 1158 – Portugueses tomam Alcácer do Sal dos mouros.
• 1244 – Henry I of Hesse was born (d. 1308).
• 1288 – Casamento do rei português D. Dinis com D. Isabel, a Rainha Santa.
• 1314 – End of the Battle of Bannockburn. Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce defeat Edward II of England. Scotland regains its independence.
• 1340 – Hundred Years’ War: Battle of Sluys The French fleet was almost totally destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by Edward III of England.
• 1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John’s Dance causes people in the streets of Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
• 1386 – Giovanni da Capistrano was born (d. 1456). Italian saint.
• 1398 – Hongwu Emperor of China dies (b. 1328). Founder of the Ming Dynasty.
• 1439 – Frederick IV of Austria dies. Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
• 1441 – Eton College founded.
• 1485 – Johannes Bugenhagen was born (d. 1558). German reformer.
• 1497 – John Cabot lands on North America in Newfoundland; first European discovery of the region since the Vikings.
• 1497 – Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank executed at Tyburn, London
• 1509 – Henry VIII crowned King of England.
• 1519 – Theodore Beza was born (d. 1605). French theologian.
• 1519 – Lucrezia Borgia dies (b. 1480). Duchess of Ferrara.
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
• 1535 – The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
• 1542 – St. John of the Cross was born (d. 1591). Spanish Carmelite friar and poet.
• 1546 – Robert Parsons was born (d. 1610). English Jesuit priest.
• 1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
• 1604 – Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford dies. Leading candidate for true authorship of the Shakespeare canon.
• 1604 – Edward de Vere dies. 17th Earl of Oxford, hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England
• 1662 – Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macao.
• 1663 – Jean Baptiste Massillon was born (d. 1742). French churchman
• 1664 – The colony of New Jersey is founded.
• 1675 – King Philip’s War begins. In colonial New England, King Philip’s War begins when a band of Wampanoag warriors raid the border settlement of Swansee, Massachusetts, and massacre the English colonists there.
• 1687 – Johann Albrecht Bengel was born (d. 1757). German scholar.
• 1692 – Kingston, Jamaica is founded.
• 1694 – Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui was born (d. 1748). Swiss publicist.
• 1704 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens was born (d. 1771). French writer.
• 1717 – The Grand Lodge of England, the first Freemasonic Grand Lodge (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.
• 1757 – D. José da Câmara dies (4th Count of Ribeira Grande – Portugal)
• 1774 – François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo was born (d. 1838). French general.
• 1777 – John Ross was born (d. 1856). Naval officer and explorer.
• 1783 – Johann Heinrich von Thünen was born (d. 22 Sep 1850). German agriculturalist best known for his work on the relationship of the costs of commodity transportation to the location of production
• 1788 – Thomas Blanchard was born (d.16 Apr 1864). American inventor who made major ontributions to the development of machine tools. He invented a number of machines before he created the famous lathe that bears his name.
• 1793 – First republican constitution in France adopted.
• 1794 – Bowdoin College is founded.
• 1795 – Ernst Heinrich Weber was born (d. 26 Jan 1878). German anatomist and physiologist.
• 1803 – George James Webb was born (d. 1887). Composer.
• 1804 – Willard Richards was born (d. 1854). American religious leader.
• 1804 – Stephan Endlicher was born (d. 28 Mar 1849). Austrian botanist who formulated a major system of plant classification.
• 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon’s invasion of Russia begins.
• 1813 – Battle of Beaver Dams : A British, and Indian joint force defeat the U.S Army.
• 1813 – Henry Ward Beecher was born (d. 1887). American clergyman and reformer.
• 1819 – Nasce em Londres a futura rainha Vitória.
• 1821 – Battle of Carabobo : Venezuela gains total independence from Spain.
• 1826 – George Goyder was born. (d. 1898). Surveyor-general of South Australia.
• 1833 – Desembarque das tropas constitucionais, comandadas pelo duque da Terceira no Algarve, na praia da Alagoa. Atravessando o Alentejo, chegarão a Lisboa em 24 de Julho.
• 1835 – Johannes Wislicenus was born (d. 5 Dec 1902). German chemist whose pioneering work led to the recognition of the importance of the spatial arrangement of atoms within a molecule
• 1836 – Karl Heinrich Ferdinand Rosenbusch was born (d. 20 Jan 1914). German geologist who laid the foundations of the science of microscopic petrography (the study of rocks in thin section, based on the optical properties of constituent mineral grains).
• 1839 – Gustavus Swift was born (d. 29 Mar 1903). American manufacturer and inventor of the first refrigerated railroad cars. These improved his handling of the supply of beef from western states to the Chicago meat company of which he was a partner.
• 1842 – Ambrose Bierce was born (d. 1914). American author.
• 1850 – Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum was born (d. 1916). Original Order of Merit member.
• 1852 – Friedrich August Johannes Löffler was born (d. 9 Abr 1915). German bacteriologist who discovered the organism that causes diphtheria, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, (1884) which had first been observed by the German physiologist Theodor Klebs in the throats of diphtheria patients (the organism became known as the Klebs-Löffler bacillus).
• 1856 – Henry Chapman Mercer was (d. 9 Mar 1930). American archaeologist, collector, and tilemaker.
• 1859 – Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns). Sardinia and France defeat Austria in northern Italy.
• 1860 – Mercedes of Orleans was born (d. 1878). Queen of Spain.
• 1861 – Tennessee becomes the 11th and last state to secede from the US.
• 1875 – Henri Labrouste dies. Franch architect.
• 1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
• 1880 – Oswald Veblen was born (d. 10 Aug 1960). American mathematician who made important contributions to differential geometry and early topology.
• 1882 – Carl Diem was born (d. 1962). German Olympic official.
• 1882 – Athanase David was born (d. 1953). French Canadian politician and businessman.
• 1883 – Victor Franz Hess was born (d. 17 Dec 1964). Austrian-born physicist who was a joint recipient (with Carl D. Anderson of the United States) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of cosmic rays, high-energy radiation originating in outer space.
• 1886 – George Shiels was born (d. 1949). Northern Irish dramatist.
• 1888 – Gerrit Rietveld was born (d. 1964). Dutch architect.
• 1894 – The IOC decides to hold the Olympic Games every four years.
• 1894 – Marie Francois Sadi Carnot assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
• 1895 – Jack Dempsey was born im Manassa, CO (d. 1983). American boxer who won the heavyweight championship six times.
• 1897 – Daniel K. Ludwig was born (d. 1992). American shipping magnate.
• 1900 – Wilhelm Cauer was born (d. 1945). German mathematician.
• 1901 – Harry Partch was born (d. 1974). American composer.
• 1901 – First exhibition of Pablo Picasso‘s work opens. The first major exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s artwork opens at a gallery on Paris’ rue Lafitte, a street known for its prestigious art galleries.
• 1902 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
• 1904 – Phil Harris was born (d. 1995). American singer, songwriter and comedian.
• 1906 – Pierre Fournier was born (d. 1986). French cellist.
• 1907 – Arseny Tarkovsky was born (d. 1989). Russian poet.
• 1908 – Alfons Rebane was born (d. 1976). Estonian military officer.
• 1908 – Hugo Distler was born (d. 1942). German composer.
• 1908 – Guru Gopinath was born (d. 1987). Indian classical dancer.
• 1908 – Grover Cleveland dies. President of the United States.
• 1909 – Sarah Orne Jewett dies (b. 1849). American writer.
• 1909 – William Penney (Baron Penney of East Hendred) was born. British nuclear physicist who led Britain’s development of the atomic bomb.
• 1910 – Japan invades Korea.
• 1911 – Juan Manuel Fangio was born (d. 1995). Argentine Formula one 5 time World Champion
• 1911 – Ernesto Sábato was born. Argentinian writer
• 1912 – Brian Johnston was born (d. 1994). British cricket commentator.
• 1913 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
• 1913 – Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1914 – Pearl Witherington was born. British WW II secret agent
• 1914 – Robert Aickman was born (d. 1981). Author.
• 1915 – Fred Hoyle was born (d. 20 Aug 2001). English mathematician and astronomer, best known as the foremost proponent and defender of the steady-state theory of the universe. “A Different Approach to Cosmology”
• 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes first film star to get million dollar contract.
• 1916 – Battle of the Somme begins with a week long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
• 1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
• 1918 – The giant cannon Big Bertha begins bombardments on Paris
• 1922 – Walther Rathenau dies assassinated (b. 1867). German Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• 1922 – Tata Giacobetti was born. Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
• 1924 – Kurt Furgler was born. Member of the Swiss Federal Council
• 1926 – Os jornais portugueses passaram a estar sujeitos à apreciação da Comissão de Censura
• 1927 – Martin Lewis Perl was born. American physicist who received the 1995 Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering a subatomic particle that he named the tau, a massive lepton with a negative charge.
• 1928 – With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person crews on trolley operations in Canada
• 1928 – Wolfgang Altenburg was born. German general
• 1930 – Claude Chabrol was born. French film director.
• 1931 – Billy Casper was born. American golfer.
• 1932 – A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand).
• 1935 – Carlos Gardel dies (airplane crash) (b. 1890). Argentine singer / Morre, na cidade de Medellin – Colombia, no auge da carreira e da fama, Carlos Gardel (Charles Romuald Gardés), grande músico e cantor do tango.
• 1935 – Pete Hamill was born. American journalist.
• 1938 – Lawrence Block was born. Acclaimed contemporary American crime writer
• 1940 – France and Italy sign an armistice.
• 1941 – Government of briefly independent Lithuania conducts it’s first meeting under prime minister Juozas Ambrazevičius.
• 1941 – Julia Kristeva was born. Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst, and novelist
• 1942 – Mick Fleetwood was born. Musician (Fleetwood Mac)
• 1942 – Michele Lee was born. American actress
• 1944 – Jeff Beck was born. English musician (Yardbirds)
• 1944 – Chris Wood was born (d. 1983). Musician.
• 1944 – Arthur Brown was born (d. 1983). English musician
• 1944 – John “Charlie” Whitney was born. English guitarist (Family, Streetwalkers, Axis Point)
• 1945 – Colin Blunstone was born. Musician (The Zombies)
• 1945 – George Pataki was born. Governor of New York
• 1945 – Moscow Victory Parade
• 1945 – The U.S.S.R. capture the Free Republic of Schwarzenberg.
• 1946 – Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1946 – Ellison Onizuka was born (d. 1986). Astronaut.
• 1947 – First known sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold, flying over Washington, notices nine luminous disks in the form of saucers.
• 1947 – Emil Seidel dies. American politician and Mayor of Milwaukee
• 1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible.
• 1949 – The first Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
• 1949 – Betty Jackson was born. British fashion designer.
• 1950 – Início do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol no Brasil.
• 1953 – Garry Shider was born. Musician (P Funk)
• 1953 – George Herbert Walker dies. Grandfather of President George H. W. Bush.
• 1955 – Betty Lago was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actress.
• 1956 – Joe Penny was born. Actor
• 1957 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obsecnity is not protected by the First Amendment.
• 1960 – Trisha Meili was born. Author
• 1963 – Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the UK.
• 1967 – Richard Kruspe-Bernstein was born. Guitarist (Rammstein)
• 1969 – Sissel Kyrkjebø was born. Norwegian singer.
• 1970 – Glenn Medeiros was born. Hawaiian singer and songwriter.
• 1974 – The UPC label is used for the first time to ring up purchases at a supermarket.
• 1975 – An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.
• 1978 – Erno “Emppu” Vuorinen was born. Guitarist (Nightwish).
• 1981 – For what would be the world’s longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years, the Humber Bridge, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, opens.
• 1981 – Terry Fox dies. Marathon runner.
• 1982 – British Airways Flight 9, sometimes referred to as the Jakarta incident, flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
• 1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7 Mission Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth.
• 1983 – Yasir Arafat banned from Damascus.
• 1983 – Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth.
• 1986 – Solange Knowles was born. Actress and singer.
• 1987 – Jackie Gleason dies. Actor, musician.
• 1991 – Bridge of S. João is inaugurated in Porto. The author of project was Edgar Cardoso Cardoso.
• 1993 – Archie Williams dies. American athlete.
• 1993 – Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
• 1994 – A United States Air Force B-52 aircraft crashes at Fairchild Air Force Base, killing all four members of its crew.
• 1996 – Michael Johnson breaks the world record in the 200 metres with a time of 19.66 seconds
• 1999 – The guitar with which Eric Clapton recorded Layla is sold at auction for the astounding price of $497,500.
• 2000 – Vera Atkins dies. Special Operations Executive intelligence officer
• 2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
• 2002 – Pierre Werner dies. Prime Minister of Luxembourg
• 2003 – Maynard Jackson dies. Mayor of Atlanta
• 2003 – Leon Uris dies. Author
• 2003 – Richard Pough dies (b. 19 Apr 1904). American ecologist who was founding president of the Nature Conservancy (1950), one of the nation’s largest environmental organizations.
• 2004 – Habib Dodo, the general secretary of the Communist Youth of Côte d’Ivoire is assassinated by pro-government forces.
• 2004 – In New York, Capital punishment was declared unconstitutional.
• 2004 – Ifigeneia Giannopoulou dies (b. 1957). Greek songwriter.
• 2005 – Segunda volta das eleições presidenciais no Irão.
• Roman Catholic Church – Feast of Saint John the Baptist, patron of farriers
• Original Midsummer’s Eve in Finland and Sweden, although the official holiday is now moved to the nearest Friday.
• One of the four Irish Quarter days in the Irish Calendar.
• Discovery Day in Newfoundland and Labrador (celebrating the 1497 discovery by John Cabot)
• Fête nationale du Québec, also called St-Jean-Baptiste Day
• Day of Indian in Peru
• Bannockburn Day in Scotland (see 1314 above)
• Bahá’í Faith – Feast of Rahmat (Mercy) – First day of the sixth month of the Bahá’í Calendar
• Quarter days in England