What Happened On Jun 24 Events

"Just grab some leather and hang on," instructed Margaret Chester, revving her motorcycle with other Dykes on Bikes lined up and ready to lead Sunday's Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco. ...

THE DETAILS • When: Sunday, June 24; noon • Where: The parade begins on Fifth Avenue at 52nd Street and proceeds south to 8th Street where it continues west. At Sixth Avenue, the parade...

CHICAGO -- Brian Roberts' long-awaited appearance at Wrigley Field generated far less buzz than the relentless offseason trade rumors that had the Orioles' second baseman all but fitted f...

Jason Varitek has been going so bad lately that there was some debate around baseball as to whether he should scrap switch hitting and bat strictly as the natural righthander he is. Go...

Saints of Los Angeles is the ninth studio album by the American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, released on June 24, 2008. It is the band's first studio album in eight years, and the first ...

Hundreds of protesters clashed with waves of riot police and paramilitary militia in Tehran on Wednesday, witnesses said, as Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, insisted that t...

On June 24, 2009, an explosion occurred in the Muraidi Market of the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Iraq. At least 69 people were killed and 150 others injured. An official said that the expl...

WASHINGTON - David Ortiz stood on first base, removed his batting gloves, and laughed at his fortune. He had just rolled a ball into the vacated part of the infield, a tumbleweed single f...

Tracklist 01. WRBG 02. Runnin’ Wild 03. Don’t Hate My Grind (Feat. Bun B) 04. Warpath (Feat. Ratfink) 05. Gangsta, Gangster (Feat. Styles P) 06. Afrika Hot! 07. NYPD (Feat. Johnn...

A woman claims clothing firm Abercrombie & Fitch made her work in the stockroom because her prosthetic arm did not fit the shop's image. Riam Dean told an Employment Tribunal she felt ...

A summit on the world financial crisis gets under way at UN headquarters in New York later. It is the first time rich and poor nations have got together to discuss the impact of the wo...

JUST PLAIN SLOPPY The Orioles had a chance to take the early lead but were foiled by missed opportunities and key mistakes. With runners on first and second and no outs in the first, F...

The Glastonbury Festival 2009 took place between 24 and 28 June 2009. In marked contrast with previous years, the 137,500 tickets went on sale on 5 October 2008, earlier than ever before,...

"As I mentioned in our last visit, while I did not need love fifteen years ago — as the battle scars of life and aging and politics have worn on this has become a real need of mine. You ha..." —Mark Sanford

On June 23, Iranian security forces, reportedly using live ammunition, clashed with protesters numbering in the hundreds in the area of the country's parliament in Tehran. At the same tim...

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran said the gunman who killed Neda Agha-Soltan may have mistaken her for the sister of an Iranian "terrorist," the Islamic Republic News Agency reported Wednesday...

It had been more than three weeks since "Hells Bells" played over the audio system at Miller Park. That's how rough things had been going for the Milwaukee Brewers. Watching the gam...

ATLANTA - Maybe it was Brian Cashman's surprise visit or Joe Girardi's not-so-surprising ejection. Perhaps it was a team meeting Tuesday night or the embarrassment of having a perfect gam...

North Korea threatened on Wednesday to "wipe out" the United States in the event of a new war on the Korean Peninsula, as international observers watched for signs the regime would perfor...

A meeting between Israel's prime minister and a senior US envoy has been cancelled amid growing differences over settlement building in the West Bank. Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot...

The U.S. soccer team pulled off a major upset Thursday, beating top-ranked Spain 2-0 on goals by Jozy Altidore and Clint Dempsey. The victory sends the Americans to the Confederations ...

DENVER — Darnell McDonald is relatively new to the Dustin Pedroia phenomena. He’s starting to get the little guy who plays big theme. “He plays like he’s 6-5, 230 pounds,’’ McDonald...

A cap was back in place on BP's broken oil well after a deep-sea blunder forced crews to temporarily remove what has been the most effective method so far for containing some of the massi...

SEATTLE -- Everything the White Sox have been since they last saw the Cubs is pretty much everything the Cubs haven't been all season. Those nine straight Sox wins since Ted Lilly beat...

It has been a bright and dynamic month for the Mets, but the past two days were marred by darker events. The team faced questions about its star pitcher's sex scandal, fielded an injury-d...

Rod Blagojevich is now heard on tape saying that the next U.S. Senator must satisfy three criteria: "Legal, personal and political." This is how top aide John Harris testified Blagojev...

"You go to these big Democratic multi-billionaires ... and you ask them all to give 2, ... a couple million each ... That's all they got to do for Valerie Jarrett... that's not hard for them." —Rod Blagojevich

"They're [Obama and associates] not willing to give me anything but appreciation -- f--- them" —Rod Blagojevich

"My preliminary reading (of the Supreme Court ruling) is it may not offer a lot of hope for you." —Judge James Zagel

Play is continuing for a third day on Thursday. Isner and Mahut split the first four sets Tuesday, before it became too dark to play. They began the fifth set Wednesday at 2:04 p.m., and ...

When The Match That Would Not End finally did, at 70-68 in the fifth set, after a record 11 hours, 5 minutes spread over three days, the customary handshake between opponents simply would...

After resuming on Wednesday 23 at 2:05 pm, the record for longest match was broken at 5:45 pm.

In James “Whitey’’ Bulger’s capture, there is finally justice for all. There is, of course, the critical justice for every daughter, every son, every sibling, and every spouse of every...

Cars 2 is a computer-animated 3-D film that will be produced by Pixar Animation Studios and is the sequel of the 2006 film Cars. It will be distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, and is sch...