Updated June 23, 2012, 2:29 pm
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.
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On This Date
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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
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Actress Minka Kelly (“Friday Night Lights”) turns 32 years old today.
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Rock musician Jeff Beck turns 68 years old today.
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1919 Al Molinaro, Actor (“Happy Days”), turns 93 1923 Jack Carter, Comedian, turns 89 1942 Michele Lee, Actress (“Knot’s Landing”), turns 70 1943 Georg Stanford Brown, Actor, director (“The Rookies”), turns 69 1944 Arthur Brown, Rock singer, turns 68 1945 George Pataki, Former governor of New York, turns 67 1947 Mick Fleetwood, Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac), turns 65 1960 Juli Inkster, Golfer, turns 52 1961 Curt Smith, Rock singer, musician (Tears for Fears), turns 51 1967 Sherry Stringfield, Actress (“ER”), turns 45 1979 Mindy Kaling, Actress, producer (“The Office”), turns 33 1986 Solange Knowles, R&B singer, turns 26
Historic Birthdays
Jack Dempsey 6/24/1895 – 5/31/1983 American world heavyweight boxing champion.Go to obituary »
86 Theodore Beza 6/24/1519 – 10/13/1605
French author, translator, educator and theologian56 Robert Dudley Leicester 6/24/1532 – 9/4/1588
English favorite of Queen Elizabeth I49 Saint John of the Cross 6/24/1542 – 12/14/1591
Spanish mystic and poet66 John Hughes 6/24/1797 – 1/3/1864
Irish-born American religious leader; first Roman Catholic archbishop of New York73 Henry Ward Beecher 6/24/1813 – 3/8/1887
American Congregational minister63 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 case75 Norman Cousins 6/24/1915 – 11/30/1990
American essayist and editor of The Saturday Review69 John Ciardi 6/24/1916 – 3/30/1986
American poet, critic and translator
