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Eton College opens with first students; founded
by William Waynflete, Master of Winchester College and later Bishop of Winchester,
under the patronage of Henry VI, the Scholar King, who also founded King's
College, Cambridge; Eton was originally called The College of the Blessed
Mary of Eaton beside Windsor; Waynflete brought with him fellows and 35 scholars
from his other college at Winchester, founded 50 years earlier; 1443 the
College is formally opened on Dec. 21; the buildings are completed in 1523.
Eton is perhaps best defined in the Duke of Wellington's comment, that "The
Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
Soviet authorities, claiming "Technical
difficulties," halt all traffic by land and by water into or out of the western-controlled
section of Berlin at midnight on June 23. The only remaining access routes
into the city are three 20 mile-wide air corridors across the Russian zone
of Germany; two days later, on June 26, USAF C-47s carry the first 80 tons
of food into Berlin; for the next 11 months the Western powers will sustain
Berlin's 2.5 million residents in Operation Vittles, as the Berlin Airlift
after is unofficially named. Airlift aircraft used three airfields within
Berlin: Tempelhof in the US sector, Gatow in the British sector, and Tegel,
built in the French sector in only 60 days using volunteer German men and
women laborers. Three SAC bomb groups are also sent to Europe, placing Soviet
targets well within B-29 range. The crisis ends when the Soviets reopen land
and water routes at midnight on May 12, 1949, but the airlift continues until
September 30 to build a backlog of supplies. By the mission's end, 342 planes
had made 277,000 flights carrying 2.5 million tons of necessities into Berlin. 
[picture: flight control parameters]
0451 06 24 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
0843 06 24 Vikings destroy Nantes
1128 06 24 Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa
1298 06 24 Rindfleish Persecutions-Jews of Ifhauben Austria massacred
1314 06 24 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
1322 06 24 Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time
1340 06 24 Battle at Lock: English fleet beats France/Genuezen, 10-30,000 killed
1340 06 24 In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys French at Sluys
1396 06 24 Crusaders under earl of Nevers reach Vienna
1397 06 24 Sultan Bajezid I release caught crusaders free, for ransom
1441 06 24 Eton College founded by Henry VI
1472 06 24 Zo Paleologa departs Rome for Moscow
1497 06 24 John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia)
1509 06 24 Henry VIII crowned King of England
1522 06 24 Battle at La Bicocca: Emperor Karel V beats France
1522 06 24 Portuguese Antonio de Brita signs treaty island of Ternate Molukkas
1527 06 24 Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking RC possessions
1529 06 24 Zrich & catholic kantons sign Peace of Kappel
1535 06 24 Anabaptists Protestants conquered & disbanded
1535 06 24 Hessische troops occupy Mnster
1540 06 24 Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
1572 06 24 5 clergymen of Enkhuizen, hanged
1597 06 24 Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches Bantam, West Java
1610 06 24 Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russia & Sweden
1619 06 24 Tsar Michails father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow
1647 06 24 Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council
1648 06 24 Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews & 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
1658 06 24 French fleet recaptures Duinkerk
1662 06 24 Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day)
1690 06 24 King Willem III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland [OS=June 14]
1692 06 24 Kingston Jamaica founded
1717 06 24 First Free Masons' grand lodge founded in London
1778 06 24 David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia
1793 06 24 First republican constitution in France adopted
1795 06 24 US & Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, first US extradition treaty
1806 06 24 English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires
1813 06 24 Battle of Beaver Dam-British & Indian forces defeat US forces
1817 06 24 First coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
1821 06 24 Battle of Carabobo; Bolvar defeats royalists outside of Caracas
1841 06 24 Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
1843 06 24 Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy
1846 06 24 Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished
1859 06 24 Battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France/Sardinia-Austria
1861 06 24 Battle of Mathias Point, VA-US attacks Confederate batteries
1861 06 24 Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
1863 06 24 Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac
1866 06 24 2nd Battle at Custozza: Prussian-Austria beats Italian army
1881 06 24 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico
1882 06 24 NL expels umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty
1884 06 24 John Lynch is first black elected chairman of Republican convention
1885 06 24 British government of Salisbury forms
1885 06 24 Samuel David Ferguson becomes first US black bishop
1894 06 24 Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
1897 06 24 Hail injures 26 in Topeka Kansas
1898 06 24 American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba
1900 06 24 Dutch Social-Democratic Worker's party & Socialistenbond merge
1901 06 24 First exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris
1901 06 24 Jewish National Fund starts
1903 06 24 Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist
1908 06 24 Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71 (.276)
1909 06 24 15th US Golf Open: George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood GC NJ
1910 06 24 50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St Andrews Scot
1911 06 24 17th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago GC in Ill
1913 06 24 53rd British Golf Open: J H Taylor shoots a 304 at Hoylake Hoylake
1914 06 24 King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent
1915 06 24 800 dies as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago
1917 06 24 Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny at Sebastopol
1920 06 24 Chuvash Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR
1922 06 24 AFPA changes name to NFL, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears
1923 06 24 Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied
1924 06 24 59th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake
1928 06 24 32nd US Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields Ill
1930 06 24 First radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
1930 06 24 Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium
1931 06 24 USSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty
1932 06 24 Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand
1936 06 24 Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inn, Yanks beat Browns 18-4
1936 06 24 Mary McLeod Bethune named director of Negro Affairs in Natl Youth Adm
1938 06 24 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1939 06 24 Pan Am's first US to England flight
1940 06 24 France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II
1941 06 24 Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated
1941 06 24 Germans advanced into Russia & took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk & Kaunas
1942 06 24 Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered
1942 06 24 Africa Corps occupy Egypt
1943 06 24 Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg
1945 06 24 Schermerhorn govt forms
1946 06 24 11.72 (29.77 cm) of rainfall at Mellen Wisc (state 24-hr record)
1946 06 24 Georges Bidault elected premier of France
1947 06 24 29th PGA Championship: Jim Ferrier at Plum Hollow CC Detroit
1947 06 24 Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold
1947 06 24 Jackie Robinson swipes home for first of 19 times in his career
1947 06 24 Jim Ferrier wins PGA golf tournament
1948 06 24 Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey
1948 06 24 Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade
1949 06 24 Hopalong Cassidy becomes first network western (NBC)
1949 06 24 A M de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog arrested in Scheveningen Neth
1949 06 24 Cargo airlines first licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
1950 06 24 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open
1950 06 24 French government-Bidault resigns
1950 06 24 NY Giant Wes Westrum hits 3 HRs & a triple
1951 06 24 Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations
1953 06 24 KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 06 24 John Murray Anderson's Almanac closes at Imperial NYC after 229 perf
1955 06 24 Harmon Killebrew hits his first HR (off Billy Hoeff)
1956 06 24 Steve Allen Show, returns on NBC-TV
1956 06 24 2nd LPGA Championship won by Marlene Hagge
1956 06 24 WISC TV channel 3 in Madison, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 06 24 I Love Lucy, last airs on CBS-TV
1960 06 24 Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa v England Lord's
1961 06 24 Happiest Girl in the World closes at Martin Beck NYC after 97 perfs
1961 06 24 Beatles record If You Love Me Baby
1961 06 24 Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait
1962 06 24 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA J E McAuliffe Golf Tournament
1962 06 24 Jack Reed's 22nd-inning HR wins longest NY Yankee game in history
1963 06 24 First demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
1963 06 24 Levi Eshkol forms Israeli govt
1963 06 24 Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain
1964 06 24 FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages
1966 06 24 Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die
1966 06 24 Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
1967 06 24 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Sacerdotalis coelibatus
1967 06 24 Zare adopts constitution
1968 06 24 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post
1968 06 24 Australia all out for 78 v England at Lord's
1968 06 24 Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion
1968 06 24 Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleve 14-3
1968 06 24 Joe Frazier TKOs Manuel Ramos in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 06 24 Resurrection City in Wash DC closed permanently
1970 06 24 Catch 22 opens in movie theaters
1970 06 24 Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
1970 06 24 Reds play final game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, beat Giants 5-4
1970 06 24 Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1972 06 24 Troglodyte (Cave Man) by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6
1972 06 24 Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of US (US Air Force)
1972 06 24 Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes first black chair in Dem convention
1973 06 24 Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8
1973 06 24 Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
1974 06 24 India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins
1974 06 24 Steve Busby retires first 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired
1975 06 24 Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113
1975 06 24 Moon tremor perceived (hit by Taurid meteors)
1976 06 24 1975 movie Rocky Horror Picture Show released in Germany
1977 06 24 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
1979 06 24 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1979 06 24 Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland & steals his first base
1980 06 24 Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, first horse to win $2 million
1982 06 24 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
1982 06 24 Jean-Loup Chretien, first spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16)
1982 06 24 Soyuz T-6 Launch (USSR)
1982 06 24 Supreme Court rules pres can't be sued for actions in office
1983 06 24 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB
1983 06 24 Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters
1984 06 24 Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265
1984 06 24 Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1985 06 24 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth
1985 06 24 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F
1986 06 24 Guy Hunt elected first Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
1986 06 24 US Senate approves tax reform
1987 06 24 CFL's Montreal Alouettes fold
1987 06 24 Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consec win streak
1988 06 24 Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves
1988 06 24 Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak
1989 06 24 Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th & 40th consecutive bases
1990 06 24 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1991 06 24 NHL adopts instant-replay & tenth of second clock in final minute
1992 06 24 Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville HS at 43
1992 06 24 Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball
1992 06 24 Eddie Antar, CEO (Crazy Eddies), $74 m stock fraud caught in Israel
1992 06 24 John Gotti begins life sentence in jail
1993 06 24 Arab terror group plans bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught
1994 06 24 First French all news TV (LCI) begins broadcasting
1994 06 24 Jeff Bagwell of Astros is 28th to hit 2 HRs in an inning
1994 06 24 Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman
1995 06 24 Stanley Cup: NJ Devils sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1997 06 24 Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom
1997 06 24 USAF reports Roswell 'space aliens' were dummies
1997 06 24 4-1, Mark McGwire his a 538 foot HR
1997 06 24 Seat Mariner Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Oakland A's but loses
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