Roswell UFO Festival

U.S. Air Force reports on Roswell

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Argentina Portraits - FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

Lionel Messi

1987 -

Soccer player considered one of the greatest of all time. Led Argentina to victory in the 2022 World Cup.

The Fourth Annual Academy Museum Gala - Arrivals

Mindy Kaling

1979 -

Actress and writer who brought off-beat humor to TV hits "The Office," "The Mindy Project" and "Never Have I Ever."

American Champ

Jack Dempsey

1895 - 1983

Boxer known as the "Manassa Mauler" who held the heavyweight championship title from 1919 to 1926.

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A "dancing plague" sweeps over Germany, with medieval villagers writhing and whirling uncontrollably in a frenzied display that left many collapsed in the streets. The cause of this mass hysteria remains a mystery.

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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 Swansea, Massachusetts, and massacre the English colonists there. In the early 1670s, 50 years of peace between the Plymouth colony and the local Wampanoag Indians began to deteriorate when the rapidly expanding settlement forced land sales […]

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1st Masonic Grand Lodge formed in London

On June 24, 1717, members of four local Masonic lodges—all part of a secret society of Masons—meet at the Goose and Gridiron alehouse in London’s St. Paul’s Churchyard to create the first Grand Lodge as their collective governing body. Known initially as the Grand Lodge of London and Westminster, it will evolve into today’s United […]

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Napoleon’s Grande Armée invades Russia

Following the rejection of his Continental System by Czar Alexander I, French Emperor Napoleon orders his Grande Armée, the largest European military force ever assembled to that date, into Russia. The enormous army, featuring some 500,000 soldiers and staff, included troops from all the European countries under the sway of the French Empire. During the […]

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Soviets blockade West Berlin

One of the most dramatic standoffs in the history of the Cold War begins as the Soviet Union blocks all road and rail traffic to and from West Berlin. The blockade turned out to be a terrible diplomatic move by the Soviets, while the United States emerged from the confrontation with renewed purpose and confidence. […]

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Senate votes to repeal Gulf of Tonkin resolution

On an amendment offered by Senator Robert Dole (R-Kansas) to the Foreign Military Sales Act, the Senate votes 81 to 10 to repeal the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. In August 1964, after North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked U.S. destroyers (in what became known as the Tonkin Gulf incident), President Johnson asked Congress for a resolution authorizing […]

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UpStairs Lounge arson attack

On June 24, 1973, an arson fire at the UpStairs Lounge, a popular gathering spot for New Orleans’ LGBT community in the French Quarter, results in 32 deaths and at least 15 injuries. At the time, it was the deadliest known attack at a gay club in American history. The fire’s official cause was “undetermined,” […]

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Garment workers’ strike begins in New York City’s Chinatown

Over 20,000 garment workers, almost all of them Asian American women, pack into Columbus Park in New York City’s Chinatown on June 24, 1982. The rally and subsequent march demonstrate the workers’ power to the city and the entire garment industry, delivering a decisive victory for the striking workers. After the Immigration and Nationality Act […]

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This Day In History: 1982 garment workers' strike begins in New York City's Chinatown

Unabomber mail bomb injures Yale professor

On June 24, 1993, Yale University computer science professor David Gelernter is seriously injured while opening his mail when a padded envelope explodes in his hands. The attack just came two days after a University of California geneticist was injured by a similar explosive and was the latest in a string of bombings since 1978 […]

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Disney pulls Insane Clown Posse album on release day

On June 24, 1997, the Walt Disney Corporation orders one of its subsidiary record labels to recall 100,000 already shipped copies of an album by a recently signed artist—Insane Clown Posse—on the day of its planned release. The issue at hand: the graphic nature of the Detroit “horror-core” rap duo’s lyrics. Those not familiar with […]

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Tom Cruise raises eyebrows in “Today” show interview

The actor Tom Cruise has an infamous interview with Matt Lauer, host of NBC’s morning talk show “Today,” on June 24, 2005. During the interview, Lauer challenged Cruise about critical comments the actor had made regarding the actress Brooke Shields’ use of anti-depressant medications to treat her postpartum depression. One of Hollywood’s most bankable leading […]

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98 people die in Surfside condo collapse

Early in the morning on June 24, 2021, 98 people die when a 12-story, beachfront condominium building collapses in Surfside, Florida, near Miami. The disaster is one of the worst of its kind in U.S. history. Responders pulled dozens of survivors from the 40-year-old Champlain Towers South building the day of the collapse. But searches […]

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