1910<\/strong> – The Japanese army invaded Korea.<\/p>\n 1913<\/strong> – Greece and Serbia annulled their alliance with Bulgaria following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace.<\/p>\n 1922<\/strong> – The American Professional Football Association took the name of The National Football League.<\/p>\n 1931<\/strong> – The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed a treaty of neutrality.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – France signed an armistice with Italy.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – TV cameras were used for the first time in a political convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia,\u00a0PA.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt\u00a0pledged all possible support to the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – Kenneth Arnold reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier,\u00a0Washington.<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> – The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announced their engagement.<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong> – Soviet MIG’s down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – The New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers, 9-7, after 22 innings.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> – The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965, cigarette manufacturers would be required to include warnings on their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – “Resurrection City,” a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People’s March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – The movie “Myra Breckinridge” premiered.<\/p>\n 1971<\/strong> – The National Basketball Association modified its four-year eligibility rule to allow for collegiate hardship cases.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – Natalia Solzhenitsyn the wife of exiled, Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, became a U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – The Empire State Building was designated a National Historic Landmark.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> –\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable TV giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 600-millionth guest. Disney movies, music, and books<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must make the decision to give a convicted killer the death penalty.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – A painting from Monet’s Waterlilies series sold for $20.2 million.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – In Paris, France, manuscripts by novelist Georges Simenon brought in $325,579. The original manuscript of “La Mort de Belle” raised $81,705.<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong> – Apple released the\u00a0iPhone\u00a04.<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0John Isner\u00a0of the United States defeats\u00a0Nicolas Mahut\u00a0of France at\u00a0Wimbledon, in\u00a0the longest match in professional tennis history.<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Julia Gillard\u00a0assumes office as the first female\u00a0Prime Minister of Australia.<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lonesome George, the last known individual of\u00a0Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the\u00a0Gal\u00e1pagos tortoise, dies.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former\u00a0Italian Prime Minister\u00a0Silvio Berlusconi\u00a0is\u00a0found guilty\u00a0of abusing his power and having sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in prison.<\/p>\n History of 24 June 1910 – The Japanese army invaded Korea. 1913 – Greece and Serbia annulled their alliance with Bulgaria following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace. 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. 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