On This Progressive Day: June 24The Moscow Victory Parade takes place (1945)
Start of the Berlin Blockade: the Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West and West Berlin impossible (1948)
In Roth v. United States, the SCOTUS rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment (1957)
Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China after crushing the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests (1989)
b: Robert Reich (1946); d: Lucrezia Borgia (1519)
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