Portal:United States/On this day/June 24
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Events
- 1916 - Mary Pickford becomes first female film star to get million dollar contract.
- 1938 - A 450 metric ton meteorite strikes the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
- 1947 - Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
- 1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
- 1975 - An Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.
- 1983 - Space Shuttle program: STS-7 Mission Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth.
- 1985 - STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery completed its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
- 1993 - Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
- 1994 - A United States Air Force B-52 aircraft crashes at Fairchild Air Force Base, killing all four members of its crew.
- 2004 - In New York, capital punishment was declared unconstitutional.
- 2007 - The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours.
