1509
\nHenry VIII was crowned king of England.<\/p>\n
1647
\nEarly American feminist Margaret Brent demanded a seat and vote in the Maryland Assembly but was ejected from that body.<\/p>\n
1675
\nKing Philip’s War, the most devastating war between the colonists and Indians, began with Indians attacking the Swansea (Mass.) settlement.<\/p>\n
1908
\nThe 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, N.J.<\/p>\n
1947
\nKenneth Arnold, an American pilot, reported seeing strange objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington. He described them as “saucers skipping across the water,” hence the term “flying saucers” was born.<\/p>\n
1948
\nThe Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. Allied forces responded with what would be known as the Berlin Airlift flying in more than 2 million tons of supplies over the next year.<\/p>\n
1997
\nThe U.S. Air Force released The Roswell Report, closing the case on the 1947 Roswell, N.M. incident concerning UFOs and alien bodies.<\/p>\n
2011
\nNew York passes a law to allow same-sex marriage, becoming the largest state that allows gay and lesbian couples to marry.<\/p>\n
2012
\nLonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, died at a Galapagos National Park, making the subspecies extinct.<\/p>\n
Jack Dempsey<\/p>\n
1895\u20131983, American boxer, born William Harrison Dempsey in Manassa, Colorado.<\/p>\n
Sir John Ross<\/p>\n
arctic explorer (1777)<\/p>\n
Henry Ward Beecher<\/p>\n
clergyman (1813)<\/p>\n
Ambrose Bierce<\/p>\n
satirist (1842)<\/p>\n
John Ciardi<\/p>\n
poet (1916)<\/p>\n
Anita Desai<\/p>\n
writer (1937)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
June 24 1509 Henry VIII was crowned king of England. 1647 Early American feminist Margaret Brent demanded a seat and vote in the Maryland Assembly… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[69,106,103,290,6131],"class_list":["post-33088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tmn","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}