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Friday 24 June 2016

Today In History [24th June, 2016]

Today in History
June 24

217 BC

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

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