What Happened On June 24th?

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1771 Chemist E.I. du Pont was born.

1795 The U.S. Senate ratified the Jay Treaty.

1811 Author Harriet Beecher Stowe was born.

1812 Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia.

1813 Clergyman Henry Ward Beecher was born.

1839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of the packaged meat industry, was born.

1842 Ambrose Gwinnet Bierce, journalist and author, was born.

1908 Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States, died.

1963 Zanzibar began internal self-government.

1987 Comedian Jackie Gleason died.

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