On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years with the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
The Supreme Court building is seen on Thursday, June 13, 2024, in Washington. Today is Monday, June 24, the 176th day of 2024. There are 190 days left in the year.In 1497, the first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place as explorer John Cabot spotted land, probably in present-day Canada.
In 1939, the Southeast Asian country Siam changed its name to Thailand. In 1946, Fred M. Vinson was sworn in as the 13th chief justice of the United States, succeeding the late Harlan F. Stone. In 1973, President Richard Nixon concluded his summit with the visiting leader of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, who hailed the talks in an address on American television.
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