This Day in History: June 24, 2024
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1509
Henry VIII was crowned king of England.
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1647
Early American feminist Margaret Brent demanded a seat and vote in the Maryland Assembly, but was ejected from that body.
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1675
King Philip's War, the most devastating war between the colonists and Indians, began with Indians attacking the Swansea (Mass.) settlement.
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1908
The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, N.J.
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1947
Kenneth Arnold, an American pilot, reported seeing strange objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington. He described them as "saucers skipping across the water," hence the term "flying saucers" was born.
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1948
The Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. Allied forces responded with what would be known as the Berlin Airlift flying in more than 2 million tons of supplies over the next year.
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1997
The U.S. Air Force released The Roswell Report, closing the case on the 1947 Roswell, N.M. incident concerning UFOs and alien bodies.
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2011
New York passes a law to allow same-sex marriage, becoming the largest state that allows gay and lesbian couples to marry.
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2012
Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, died at a Galapagos National Park, making the subspecies extinct.
