June 24<\/p>\n
109 \u2013 Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 25 miles northwest of Rome to the city. It remains in use for 1500 years and most of it still stands to this day<\/p>\n
1230 \u2013 During the Spanish Reconquista, the forces of King Ferdinand III of Castile besiege city of Ja\u00e9n in the southern Spanish area of Andalusia, defended by the Taifa of Jayy\u0101n.<\/p>\n
1314 \u2013 During the first war of Scottish Independence, the Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory by Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce<\/p>\n
1497 \u2013 John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland<\/p>\n
1813 \u2013 In the Battle of Beaver Dams,\u00a0 near Thorold, Ontario, a British and Kahnawake Indian combined force defeats the United States Army during the War of 1812.<\/p>\n
1916 \u2013 Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.<\/p>\n
1922 \u2013 The American Professional Football Association is renamed the National Football League.<\/p>\n
1938 \u2013 Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 tons when it hit the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
1947 \u2013 Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.<\/p>\n
1948 \u2013 In retaliation for the introduction of the West German Deutsche Mark which caused economic upheaval in the Soviet Zone of Occupation, the Soviets begin blocking overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin as a negotiating tactic to have issue of the new currency halted, beginning the ‘Berlin Blockade’.<\/p>\n
1949 \u2013 The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy<\/em>, starring William Boyd, is aired on the NBC network.<\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 In the case of Roth v. United States<\/em>, the Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 The UpStairs Lounge<\/em> arson attack takes place at a homosexual hangout located on the 2nd floor of the 3 story building at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Killing 32 people.<\/p>\n 1975 \u2013 Eastern Air Lines Flight 66, a Boeing 727, encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York’s JFK Airport killing 113 of the 124 passengers and crew on board, making it the deadliest U.S. plane crash at the time.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 Piloted by a known, reckless, daredevil ‘hot dog’ past its operational limits, the crash of a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress at Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane Washington – killing all 4 crew aboard – is video recorded in detail and later used for training purposes.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 The Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida suffers a sudden partial collapse, killing 98 residents.<\/p>\n 2022 \u2013 In the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em>, the Supreme Court rules that the U.S. Constitution does not assign the authority to regulate abortions to the federal government, returns such authority to the individual states and overturning the prior decisions in Roe v. Wade<\/em> (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey<\/em> (1992).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 24 109 \u2013 Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 25 miles northwest of Rome to the city. It remains in use for 1500 years and most of it still stands to this day 1230 \u2013 During the Spanish Reconquista, the forces of King Ferdinand III … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56264"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93879,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56264\/revisions\/93879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}