DYR Today, June 24

“BORN TODAY”

Grover Cleveland (Born: March 18, 1837 / Died: June 24, 1908)
Kenny Washington (Born: August 31, 1918 / Died: June 24, 1971)
Jackie Gleason (Born: February 26, 1916 / Died: June 24, 1987) (Featured Above)
Chris Benoit (Born: May 21, 1967 / Died: June 24, 2007)

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1964 – The Beatles played the first of two nights at Auckland Town Hall, New Zealand
1965 – The Hollies were at No.1 on the UK Singles Chart with ‘I’m Alive’
1966 – The Rolling Stones began their fifth North American Tour
1967 – The Monkees went to No.1 on the US Album Chart with ‘Headquarters
1969 – The Top 5 singles this week: No.5, ‘Living in the Past’, Jethro Tull, No.4, ‘Time is Tight’, Booker T and the MG’s, No.3, ‘Dizzy’, Tommy Roe, No. 2, Oh Happy Day, Edwin Hawkins Singers, and at No.1, ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’ by The Beatles
1974 – Lynard Skynard’s ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ was released

1977 – The Jacksons were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with “Show You the Way to Go’
1978 – Genesis, Jefferson Starship, Jeff Beck, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Devo, Brand X and the Atlanta Rhythm Section all appeared at Knebworth Park, England
1989 – Paul McCartney scored his seventh UK No.1 solo album with ‘Flowers in the Dirt’
1989 – Soul To Soul started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Back to Life’
1990 – Perry Bamonte replaced Roger O’Donnell in The Cure
1991 – Frank Zappa took part at the concert “Adieu Soviet Army’

1940 – TV cameras were used for the first time in a political convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia, PA.
1969 – Led Zeppelin recorded ‘Whole Lotta Love’, ‘What is and What Should Never Be’, ‘Traveling Riverside Blues’ and ‘Communication Breakdown’ for BBC Radio 1 at Maida Vale Studios, London

1896 – Booker T. Washington became the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Howard University.

1922 – The American Professional Football Association took the name of The National Football League.
1931 – The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed a treaty of neutrality.
1940 – France signed an armistice with Italy.
1941 – U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support to the Soviet Union.
1947 – Kenneth Arnold reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington.
1948 – The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade.
1953 – John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announced their engagement.

1955 – Soviet MIG’s down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.
1962 – The New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers, 9-7, after 22 innings.
1964 – The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965, cigarette manufactures would be required to include warnings on their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking.
1965 – John Lennon’s second book of poetry and drawings, ‘A Spaniard in the Works’, was published

1968 – “Resurrection City,” a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People’s March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.
1970 – The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
1971 – The National Basketball Association modified its four-year eligibility rule to allow for collegiate hardship cases.
1982 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that no president could be sued for damages connected with actions taken while serving as President of the United States.
1985 – Natalia Solzhenitsyn the wife of exiled, Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, became a U.S. citizen.

1986 – The Empire State Building was designated a National Historic Landmark.
1997 – The U.S. Air Force released a report titled “The Roswell Report, Case Closed” that dismissed the claims that an alien spacecraft had crashed in Roswell, NM, in 1947.
1998 – AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable TV giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
1998 – Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 600-millionth guest.