Today in History - History - June 24th

1977IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976

1992John Gotti begins life sentence in jail

1540English King Henry VIII commands his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves, to leave the court

1947Jackie Robinson swipes home for 1st of 19 times in his career

1962Betsy Rawls wins LPGA J E McAuliffe Golf Tournament

1948Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey

1731Freemason and Mayor of Philadelphia William Allen is appointed Provincial Grand Master of Pennsylvania, the first and youngest Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania

1859Battle of Solferino, Northern Italy: a French Army under Napoleon III and Sardinian Army under Victor Emmanuel II overcame the Austrian Army under Emperor Franz Joseph I.

1992Billy Joel gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville High School at 43

1997Mark McGwire hits a 538 foot home run

1987Lionel Messi, Rosario Argentina, Argentine footballer (FC Barcelona)

1842Ambrose Bierce, Meigs County, Ohio, American writer and satirist (Devil's Dictionary, Nuggets & Dust)

1895Jack Dempsey, "Manassa Mauler", heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26)

1947Mick Fleetwood, London, rock drummer (Fleetwood Mac-Go Your Own Way)

1934Golfer Byron Nelson (22) weds Louise Shofner

1967NFL Footballer and later criminal OJ Simpson (19) marries Marguerite Whitley

2000"Dixie Chicks" lead vocalist Natalie Maines (25) weds "Profit" actor Adrian Pasdar (35) at The Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada

1904Prime Minister of Canada Arthur Meighen (30) weds Jessie Isabel Cox

1933Actor John Wayne (26) weds Josephine Saenz (25) in Los Angeles

1924American writer Henry Miller (31) marries 2nd wife June Smerth (21) in Hoboken, New Jersey.

188528th US President Woodrow Wilson (28) weds Presbyterian minister's daughter Ellen Louise Axson (25) in Savannah, Georgia

1914MLB greatest pitcher Walter Johnson (26) weds Hazel Lee Roberts in Northwest, Washington DC

1908Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th US President (1885-89, 93-97), dies at 71

1935Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer and the most prominent figure in the history of tango, dies in a plane crash at 44