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OddlyTrue News Stand — June 24

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Classic headline

Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge

Source: Classic headline (CJR 'Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim' collections)View clipping source

Headline 15 of 27 in the Hall of Fame rotation.

Weird history on June 24

1947 Weird
Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
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1880 First ever
"O Canada", the present-day national anthem of Canada, was first performed in Quebec City during a Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day banquet.
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1724 First ever
On the Feast of St. John the Baptist, Bach led the first performance of Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7, the third cantata of his chorale cantata cycle.
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Vintage clipping

Vintage clipping · 1906

Evening star (Washington, D.C.), June 24, 1906

Page 20 · mentions "flirt" · printed on this very day

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Image and text from the Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers site.

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