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
1793 1st republican constitution in France adopted
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)
1901 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso aged 19, opens in Paris
1930 1st detection of an airplane using reflected radio waves, a precursor to radar, by US Naval Research Laboratory engineers in Anacostia, Washington, D.C.
2022 US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, eliminating constitutional right to choose abortion, in a 6-3 vote
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Today in Film & TV
1916 Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract
Today in Music
1958 Nina Simone releases her debut jazz album “Little Girl Blue”
Today in Sport
1995 3rd Rugby World Cup, Ellis Park, Johannesburg: Springboks fly-half Joel Stransky lands the winning drop goal in extra time as South Africa beats New Zealand, 15-12
2010 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
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1374 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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Famous Weddings
1885 College professor and future 28th US President Woodrow Wilson (28) weds Presbyterian minister’s daughter and artist Ellen Louise Axson (25) in Savannah, Georgia, until her death in 1914
1904 Prime Minister of Canada Arthur Meighen (30) weds Canadian Jessie Isabel Cox (22), until his death in 1960
1914 MLB greatest pitcher Walter Johnson (26) weds Hazel Lee Roberts in Northwest, Washington, D.C., until her death in 1930
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The strange social phenomena of Medieval Europe where people began dancing and simply couldn’t stop – June 24, 1374
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