June 24th
Today in America's Present Past
1664 | Colony of New Jersey founded.
1794 | Bowdoin College is founded in Maine.
1795 | The Jay Treaty is signed.
1811 | SCOTUS: Justice John Archibald Campbell was born.
1813 | Cleric Henry Ward Beecher was born.
1817 | Founder Thomas McKean died.
1841 | Fordham University was founded.
1848 | Philosopher Brooks Adams was born.
1953 | POTUS: President Pierce executes the Gadsden Purchase of territory.
1865 | Painter Robert Henri was born.
1884 | Civil Rights: John Lynch is the first black elected national convention chairman.
1885 | Civil Rights: Samuel David Ferguson becomes the first American black bishop.
1885 | POTUS: President Woodrow Wilson weds Ellen Axton.
1893 | Entrepreneur Roy O. Disney was born.
1895 | Boxer Jack Demsey was born.
1897 | Entrepreneur Daniel K. Ludwig was born in South Haven, Michigan.
1902 | Entrepreneur George Dayton forms the Target company.
1908 | POTUS: President Grover Cleveland died.
1916 | Poet John Ciardi was born.
1922 | Entrepreneur Mary Florence Potts died.
1946 | Philanthropist Louise Whitfield Carnegie died
1949 | TV: “Hopalong Cassidy" debuts.
1970 | Congress: Senate votes to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
1972 | Wake Island becomes an unincorporated territory of the U.S.
1982 | SCOTUS: Court rules that the president can't be sued for actions in office.
1987 | Actor Jackie Gleason died.
1993 | War on Terror: An Islamic terrorist group planning a bombing of the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels was arrested.
2022 | SCOTUS: Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson.