On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson, one of the most
commercially successful entertainers in history, died
at the age of 50 at his home in Los Angeles, California,
after suffering from cardiac arrest caused by a fatal
combination of drugs given to him by his personal
doctor.

On June 24, 1997, U.S. Air Force officials released a 231-page
report dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft
crash in Roswell, New Mexico, almost exactly 50 years earlier.

Public interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, began
to flourish in the 1940s, when developments in space travel
and the dawn of the atomic age caused many Americans to
turn their attention to the skies.

The town of Roswell near the Pecos River in southeastern
New Mexico became a magnet for UFO believers due to the
strange events of early July 1947, when ranch foreman W.W.
Brazel found a strange, shiny material scattered over some
of his land. He turned the material over to the sheriff, who
passed it on to authorities at the nearby Air Force base.

On July 8, Air Force officials announced they had recovered the wreckage of a “flying disk.” A local newspaper put the story on
its front page, launching Roswell into the spotlight of the public’s
UFO fascination. 

On June 23, 1989, Tim Burton’s noir spin on the well-known story
of the DC Comics hero Batman was released in theaters.

Michael Keaton starred in the film as the multimillionaire Bruce
Wayne, who has transformed himself into the crime-fighting
Batman after witnessing his parents’ brutal murder as a child.

Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm)
(June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)

   
1939

On June 22, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the
G.I. Bill, an unprecedented act of legislation designed to
compensate returning members of the armed services—
known as G.I.s—for their efforts in World War II.