June 24 in Pop Culture History |
| June 24th is… International Fairies Day Jani Midsummer National Pralines Day Summersgiving Swim A Lap Day Take Back the Lunch Break Day Upcycling Day |
| 1374 – An early morning sudden outbreak of ‘St. John’s Dance’ caused people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapsed from exhaustion.
1509 – Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon were crowned King and Queen of England. 1873 – Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) received a patent (#140,245) for a self-pasting Scrapbook 1916 – Mary Pickford became the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract (with Adolph Zukor/Paramount). 1938 – Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded, landed near Chicora, in western Pennsylvania. A cow was reportedly injured. 1947 – Kenneth Arnold reported seeing the Mount Rainier UFO 1948 – Veteran Pilots Clarence Chiles and Charles Whitted, in Alabama, saw a cigar-shaped vehicle with windows, flying beside them. 1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, aired on NBC, starring William Boyd. 1957 – Jack Parr became the host on The Tonight Show on NBC 1983 – Porky’s II: The Next Day, Yellowbeard and Twilight Zone: The Movie were released in theaters 1988 – Who Framed Roger Rabbit debuted in theaters 1989 #1 Hit June 24, 1989 – June 30, 1989: Richard Marx – Satisfied 1997 – US Air Force officials released a 231-page report dismissing all of the claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. 2000 #1 Hit June 24, 2000 – July 14, 2000: Enrique Iglesias – Be With You 2004 – In New York, capital punishment was declared unconstitutional. 2005 – March of the Penguins, George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead, The Honeymooners and Bewitched were released in theaters 2008 – Wipeout premiered on ABC. 2009 – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen debuted in theaters 2011 – Cars 2 and Bad Teacher were released in theaters |