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- 1497 John Cabot claims parts of North America (what is now Eastern Canada) for England believing he has found Asia in Newfoundland
- 1509 Henry VIII is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey, London
- 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Armée numbering half a million begin their invasion of Russia by crossing the Nieman River
- 1853 US President Franklin Pierce signs the Gadsden Purchase, buying 29,670 square-miles (76,800 square km) from Mexico for $10 million (now southern Arizona and New Mexico)
- 1930 First detection of an airplane using reflected radio waves, a precursor to radar, by US Naval Research Laboratory engineers in Anacostia, Washington, D.C.
- 1948 Soviet Union blockades West Berlin by stopping access by road, rail and water
- 2022 US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, eliminating constitutional right to choose abortion, in a 6-3 vote [1] [2]
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- 1916 Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract
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In the longest match in tennis history, American John Isner defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon after 11 hours, 5 minutes of play over 3 days
Fun Fact About June 24
Sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion
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