History for June 24 - On-This-Day.com
E.I. Du Pont (Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours) 1771 - Chemist, industrialist,
Ambrose Bierce 1842 - Journalist, editorialist, Jack Dempsey 1895 - Boxer
Irving Kaufman 1910 - U.S. Supreme Court judge, Norman Cousins 1915 - Journalist, author, Al Molinaro 1919 - Actor ("Happy Days")
1497 - Italian explorer John Cabot, sailing in the service of England, landed in North America on what is now Newfoundland.
1896 - Booker T. Washington became the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Howard University.
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